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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 8, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 29 | $****** - ****** | Guéridon, guitare et compotier |
Works on Paper
26.9 x 20.7 cm (10.59 x 8.15 in)
Gouache and India ink
Signed in upper left
• Significant provenance: once owned by Hilde Prytek, director of the progressive Nierendorf Gallery in New York, now offered on the auction market for the first time. • Still lifes from the Cubist phase in major collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and Tate Gallery, London Hilde Prytek (1908-1961), New York (in the following family-owned). Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (gifted from the above in 1990). "He changed direction, returned on his track, with even firmer steps, constantly growing, gaining strength from the contact with a yet undiscovered nature or through comparison with the coequal masters from the past." Guillaume Apollinaire
• In 2023, Picasso was honored in exhibitions around the world on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death . The work was presented to Paloma Ruiz-Picasso, Paris, for authentication in October 2023. The result was not at hand before printing.
Guéridon, guitare et compotier . Wohl 1920. Gouache and India ink. Signed in upper left. On wove paper. 26.9 x 20.7 cm (10.5 x 8.1 in), size of sheet. • The year 1920 marked the onset of one of the artist"s stylistically most versatile and most experimental phases. • In the summer of 1920, he began a series of gouaches characterized by an inventiveness regarding the possibilities of synthetic Cubism. • The guitar is of particular importance to the Spanish-born painter: musical instruments become the central motif of the Cubist still lifes.
