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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 14, 2023 | Sotheby's | New York | Modern Day Auction | 291 | $****** - ****** | Good | Deux femmes nues se tenant |
Works on Paper
66.4 x 46.4 cm (26.14 x 18.27 in)
pencil on paper
signed Picasso (lower right)
Leo and Gertrude Stein, Paris (acquired in 1906)
Alice B. Toklas, Paris (acquired by descent from the above in 1946)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired circa 1954)
César Mange de Hauke (Jacques Seligmann and Co.), Paris (acquired by May 1954)
Jacques Sarlie, New York
Sotheby"s, London, 12 October 1960, lot 7 (consigned by the above)
Marlborough Fine Art, London (acquired from the above)
Collection Augstein, Hamburg
Private Collection, Germany
Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 19 June 2020, lot 13
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5 , vol. VI, Paris 1954, no. 875, pl. 105, illustrated
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Life and Work of the Early Years 1881-1907 , Oxford 1981, no. 1351, p. 471, illustrated (titled Sketch for "Two Nude Women Arm in Arm" )
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, 1881-1906 , vol. I, New York 1991, p. 468, illustrated (titled Two Nudes )
Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), The Steins Collect , 2011, no. 342, pp. 374 and 442, pl. 359, illustrated in situ in a photograph (titled Two Standing Nudes )
Property Previously in the Collection of Leo & Gertrude Stein
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Deux femmes nues se tenant
signed Picasso (lower right)
pencil on paper
26 ⅛ by 18 ¼ in.
66.4 by 46.4 cm.
Executed in Gósol in 1906.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
