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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 16, 2025 | Christie's | London | Spellbound: The Hegewisch Collection, Part I | 322 | $****** - ****** | Courses de taureaux |
Works on Paper
25.7 x 34.3 cm (10.12 x 13.5 in)
pencil on paper
dated and inscribed Boisgeloup 24 juillet xxxiv- (verso)
The artist"s estate.
Marina Picasso (b. 1950), Paris; by descent from the above.
Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie., Geneva (no. JK 2862); on consignment from the above.
Acquired from the above in April 1980; then by descent to the present owners.
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Pablo Picasso: Eine Ausstellung zum hundertsten Geburtstag - Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, February - April 1981, no. 176, pp. 337 & 340 (ill.; titled "Stier und Pferd"); this exhibition later travelled to Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, August - October 1981; and Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie, October 1981 - January 1982.
Venice, Centro di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi, Picasso - Opere dal 1895 al 1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso , May - July 1981, no. 222, pp. 328 & 330 (ill.; titled "Toro e Cavallo").
Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: Masterpieces from Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in U.S.A. and U.S.S.R., April - May 1983, no. 139, pp. 280 (ill.) & 342 (titled "Bull Disembowling a Horse"); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum, June - July 1983.
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Picasso - Todesthemen , January - April 1984, no. 52, pp. 214 (ill.) & 296 (titled "Stier und Pferd").
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, Picasso: Works from the Marina Picasso Collection in Collaboration with Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva , with Loans from Museums in Europe and the United States of America and Private Collections, July - September 1984, no. 108, p. 116 (ill.; titled "Bull and Horse"); this exhibition later travelled to Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, October - December 1984.
Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Picasso: Pastelle, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle , April - June 1986, no. 152, p. 280 (ill.; titled "Stier und Pferd"); this exhibition later travelled to Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, June - July 1986.
Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Picassos Surrealismus: Werke 1925-1937 , September - December 1991, no. 75, pp. 110 (ill.) & 338 (titled "Stier und Pferd").
Paris, Musée Picasso, Picasso: Toros y Toreros, April - June 1993, no. 70, pp. 170 (ill.) & 253 (titled "Taureau et cheval"); this exhibition later travelled to Bayonne, Musée Bonnat, July - September 1993; and Barcelona, Museu Picasso, October 1993 - January 1994.
London, Croydon Museum, Cock and Bull stories: A Picasso Bestiary , March - May 1995, p. 45 (ill.; titled "Bull and Horse").
Kyoto, The National Museum of Modern Art, Picasso: The Love and the Anguish - The Road to Guernica , October - December 1995, no. 27, pp. 100-101 (ill.) & 337 (titled "Bull Disemboweling a Horse"); this exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Tobu Museum of Art, December 1995 - March 1996.
Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Picasso, Der blinde Minotaurus - Die Sammlung Hegewisch in der Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 1997, pp. 38-39 (ill.) & 80 (titled "Stier und Pferd (Stierkampf)").
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Picasso: Corrida de toros, 1934 , January - May 1999, no. 7, p. 49 (ill.; titled "Toro y caballo").
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Picasso: Sous le soleil de Mithra , June - November 2001, no. P 60, p. 98 (ill.; titled "Taureau et cheval"); this exhibition later travelled to Musée Picasso, Paris, November 2001 - March 2002.
Oslo, Munchmuseet, Pablo Picasso - Den blinde Minotaurus - grafikk og tegning , November 2002 - February 2003 (no cat.).
Münster, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter: Between Classicism and Surrealism , May - August 2004, p. 221.
Hamburg, Ernst Barlach Haus Stiftung Hermann F. Reemtsma, Pablo Picasso - Der Stier und das Mädchen - Meisterblätter aus der Sammlung Hegewisch, June - October 2010, no. 21, p. 113 (ill.; titled "Stier und Pferd").
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 8, Œuvres de 1932 à 1937 , Paris, 1957, no. 217 (ill. pl. 100).
S. Goeppert & H.C. Goeppert-Frank, Minotauromachy by Pablo Picasso, Geneva, 1987, p. 25 (ill.; titled "Bullfights - Courses de taureaux").
H.B. Chipp, Picasso"s Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings , London, 1989, no. 5.3, p. 26 (ill.; titled "Furious Bull Goring Horse").
L. Ullmann, Picasso und der Krieg , Bonn, 1993, no. 63, pp. 48-49 (ill.; titled "Stier, ein Pferd Ausweidend").
J. Clair (ed.), Picasso Érotique, exh. cat., Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2001, p. 115 (ill.; titled "Bull and Horse").
B. Léal, C. Piot & M.-L. Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso , New York, 2003, no. 705, pp. 286, 290 (ill.) & 526 (titled "Bull and Horse").
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica (1927-1939) , Barcelona, 2011, no. 643, p. 197 (ill.) & 439 (titled "Bull and Horse").
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Courses de taureaux
dated and inscribed Boisgeloup 24 juillet xxxiv- (verso)
pencil on paper
25,7 x 34,3 cm. (10 1/8 x 13 ½ in.)
Drawn in Boisgeloup on 24 July 1934
