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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 4, 2013 | Christie's | New York | A Dialogue Through Art: Works from the Jan Krugier Collection Evening Sale | 11 | $****** - ****** | Buste d'homme écrivant (Autoportrait) |
paintings
115.5 x 88.9 cm (45.47 x 35 in)
oil on canvas
dated and numbered '28.6.71. II' (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist. Marina Picasso (by descent from the above).
Jan Krugier, acquired from the above.
Avignon, Palais des Papes, Picasso, 1970-1972, May-September 1973, p. 77, no. 64 (illustrated). Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museum Ludwig; Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut and Kunsthaus Zürich, Pablo Picasso: Eine Ausstellung zum hundertsten Geburtstag, Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, February 1981-March 1982, p. 412, no. 275 (illustrated). Venice, Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso: opere dal 1895 al 1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso, May-July 1981, p. 400, no. 332 (illustrated, p. 401; titled Uomo che medita e disegna). Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum, Picasso: Masterpieces from Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in U.S.A. and U.S.S.R., April-July 1983, p. 308, no. 205 (illustrated in color, p. 163; illustrated again, p. 309; titled Man in Thoughtful Mood at Desk). New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Picasso: The Last Years, 1963-1973, March-May 1984, p. 132, no. 88 (illustrated, p. 36, fig. 50). Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria and Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso, July-December 1984, p. 177, no. 167 (illustrated in color). Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Ancienne Collection Marina Picasso, April-September 1986. Rome, Accademia di Francia, Villa Medici, Pablo Picasso: gli ultimi anni, November 1987-January 1988, pp. 399-400 and 414, no. 126 (illustrated, p. 399; illustrated again in color, p. 415). New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Picasso: The Last Decades, April-July 1988. Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Pablo Picasso, October 1988-January 1989, p. 238, no. 100 (illustrated in color, p. 120). Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Picasso letzte Bilder, Werke 1966-1972, October 1993-January 1994, p. 304, no. 25 (illustrated in color, p. 47). Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie, Pablo Picasso Métamorphoses: oeuvres de 1898 à1973 de la collection Marina Picasso, March-June 2001, p. 127, no. 116 (illustrated in color, p. 117). Kunstmuseum Bern, Picasso und die Schweiz, October 2001-January 2002, p. 373, no. 189 (illustrated in color, fig. 189). New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Pablo Picasso Metamorphoses: Works from 1898 to 1973 from the Marina Picasso Collection, May-July 2002, p. 127, no. 116 (illustrated in color, p. 117; illustrated again in situ at the Palais des Papes 1973 exhibition, p. 116). New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, The Fire Under the Ashes: From Picasso to Basquiat, November 2003-January 2004, p. 11 (illustrated in color). Institut Valenciàd'Art Modern, Centre Julio González, El fuego bajo las cenizas (de Picasso a Basquiat), May-August 2005, p. 161 (illustrated in color). Paris, Fondation Dina Vierny--Musée Maillol, Le feu sous les cendres: de Picasso àBasquiat, October 2005-February 2006, p. 153, (illustrated in color, p. 30). Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge: Von Rembrandt bis Picasso, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July-October 2007, p. 416, no. 200 (illustrated in color, p. 417).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1978, vol. 33, no. 78 (illustrated, pl. 27). D.D. Duncan, Goodbye Picasso, New York, 1974, p. 278 (illustrated in situ at the Palais des Papes 1973 exhibition). B. Léal, C. Piot and M.-L. Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, pp. 468 and 528, no. 1163 (illustrated in color, p. 469; titled Figure with a Book and with incorrect dating). M. Peppiatt, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gaston Chaissac, Jean Dubuffet, JoaquÃÂn Torres-GarcÃÂa, exh. cat., Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, 2003, p. 11 (illustrated in color). The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Final Years, 1970-1973, San Francisco, 2004, p. 171, no. 71-181 (illustrated).
