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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 27, 2023 | Sotheby's | London | Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction, featuring Face to Face: A Celebration of Portraiture | 112 | $****** - ****** | Femme au turban | |||
Jun 25, 2002 | Christie's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art - Evening Sale | 11 | $****** - ****** | Femme au turban |
Works on Paper
107.9 x 71.7 cm (42.48 x 28.23 in)
pen and ink on paper
signed Picasso (lower right)
Ueli Gasser Kunsthandel, Zurich
Karl von Schumacher (1895-1957), Schloss Mauensee, Lucerne
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired by descent from the above)
Christie's, London, 25 June 2002, lot 11 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Lausanne, Palais de Beaulieu, Chefs d"œuvre des collections suisses de Manet à Picasso , 1964, no. 244, illustrated (dated 1925 and with incorrect dimensions)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Grand Palais, Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation , 1996-97, p. 53, illustrated in colour (titled Portrait of Sara Murphy )
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Œuvres de 1923 à 1925 , vol. V, Paris, 1952, no. 369, pl. 158, illustrated (dated 1925 and with incorrect dimensions)
William Rubin, "The Pipes of Pan: Picasso's Aborted Love Song to Sara Murphy," ARTnews , May 1994, fig. 5, p. 140, illustrated (titled Sara in a Turban )
Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story , New York, 1998, illustrated
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Europe
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Femme au turban
signed Picasso (lower right)
pen and ink on paper
107.9 by 71.7 cm. 42 ½ by 28 ¼ in.
Executed in 1923.
