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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 19, 2013 | Sotheby's | London | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 32 | $****** - ****** | Femmes Jouant Au Bord De La Mer | |||
Nov 9, 1999 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & 20th Century Works on Paper | 449 | $****** - ****** | Femmes Jouant Au Bord De La Mer |
Works on Paper
25 x 34.5 cm (9.84 x 13.58 in)
pen and brush and ink and wash on paper
signed Picasso and dated 25 Novembre XXXII (lower right)
Hugh Willoughby, London & Hove (acquired by 1934)
Gérald Cramer, Geneva (acquired in 1957)
O'Hana Gallery, London
Private Collection
Sale: Christie's, New York, 9th November 1999, lot 449
Purchased at the above sale by the late owner
London, Tate Gallery & Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Drawings and Paintings by Picasso, from the Collection of Mr Hugh Willoughby, 1934 Cheltenham, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, 1937 Hove, Furze Croft, 1942 London, Eugene Slatter Gallery, Picasso Loan Exhibition, Collection of Hugh Willoughby, Esq., 1945, no. 12 (titled Baigneuses au bord de la mer) Paris, Artcurial, L'Aventure surréaliste autour d'André Breton, 1986, illustrated in the catalogue Paris, Artcurial, La Méditerranée, sources et formes du XXème siècle, 1988, illustrated in the catalogue Paris, Artcurial, Papiers de peintres - papiers de sculpteurs, 1991 Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Picassos Surrealismus, Werke 1925-1937, 1991, no. 45, illustrated in colour in the catalogue
Robert Melville, Picasso: Master of the Phantom, Oxford, 1939, illustrated pl. VI ; Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1932 à 1937, Paris, 1957, vol. 8, no. 59, illustrated pl. 26; Annick Ehrenström, Gérald Cramer, un éditeur génèvois au fil de ses archives de 1942 à 1986, Geneva, 1988, illustrated p. 105; The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Surrealism, 1930-1936, San Francisco, 1997, no. 32-159, illustrated p. 146; Anne Strathie & Sophia Wilson, Hugh Willoughby - The Man Who Loved Picassos, 2009, illustrated in a photograph on the cover; illustrated in photographs pp. 3, 22, 35 & 37
