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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 27B | $****** - ****** | Le Phallus |
Works on Paper
13.3 x 8.9 cm (5.25 x 3.5 in)
gouache and pen and India ink on card
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
Albert de Domenico, Cannes.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Zürich (acquired from the above).
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2011.
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume; Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts and Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso érotique, February 2001-January 2002, pp. 87-88, no. 36 (illustrated in color, pp. 89 and 177).
Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Das endlose Rätsel: Dalí und die Magier der Mehrdeutigkeit, February-June 2003, p. 185 (illustrated in color).
Paris, Grand Palais, Une image peut en cacher une autre, April-July 2009, p. 286, no. 237 (illustrated).
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, exh. cat., Musèe Picasso, Paris, 1988, vol. 2, p. 485, no. 209 (illustrated; titled Domination phallique).
J. Richardon, A Life of Picasso, 1881-1906, New York, 1991, vol. I, p. 281 (illustrated, p. 280).
N. Staller, A Sum of Destructions: Picasso's Cultures & The Creation of Cubism, New York, 2001, p. 310, nos. 292 and 294 (illustrated in color, p. 311).
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
gouache and pen and India ink on card
5 ¼ x 3 ½ in. (13.3 x 9 cm.)
Executed circa 1903
