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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 4A | $****** - ****** | L'Atelier |
paintings
115.9 x 88.9 cm (45.63 x 35 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Picasso' (lower left), dated '28.10.55' (on the reverse)
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris.
Saidenberg Gallery, New York (by 1957).
Private collection, New York.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich.
Daros collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, circa 1997 and until at least 1999).
Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York (2005).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 9 May 2006.
Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler), Picasso: Peintures, 1955-1956, March-April 1957, p. 5, no. 4 (illustrated).
New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Pablo Picasso: Paintings, 1954-1955-1956, September-October 1957 (illustrated).
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Inc. and New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Homage to Picasso for his Ninetieth Birthday: Exhibition for the Benefit of the American Caner Society, October 1971, p. 83, no. 73 (illustrated).
Barcelona, Museo Picasso, Picasso: Indoor and Outdoor Landscapes, October 1999-January 2000, pp. 137 and 271, no. 109 (illustrated in color; titled The Studio of La Californie).
Kunstmuseum Bern, Picasso und die Schweiz, October 2001-January 2002, p. 372, no. 148 (illustrated in color).
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso: The Last Decades, November 2002-February 2003, p. 94, no. 17 (illustrated in color; titled Studio (La Californie)).
R. Penrose and E. Quinn, Picasso at Work, London, 1965 (illustrated in color in situ in the artist's studio).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1965, vol. 16, no. 490 (illustrated, pl. 167).
D. Cooper, Braque: The Great Years, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972, p. 75 (illustrated, fig. 58).
P. Daix and E. Quinn, The Private Picasso, Boston, 1987, p. 149 (illustrated in color in situ in the artist's studio).
Y.-A. Bois, Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, exh. cat., Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1999, pp. 231 and 234 (illustrated in color, fig. 227; titled The Studio a "La Californie").
signed 'Picasso' (lower left); dated '28.10.55' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
45 ⅝ x 35 in. (115.8 x 89.9 cm.)
Painted on 28 October 1955
