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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 24, 2021 | Sotheby's | New York | Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection | 8 | $****** - ****** | Buste d'homme |
paintings
130.2 x 96.8 cm (51.25 x 38.13 in)
Oil and Ripolin on canvas
Signed Picasso (upper right); dated 10.9.69 and numbered II (on the reverse)
Estate of the artist
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, Switzerland
Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above on September 19, 1997)
Acquired from the above
Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969 , New York, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Man )
Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon. Commentaires à une peinture en mouvement , Paris, 1971, illustrated in color n.p. (titled Homme )
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1969 , vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 420, illustrated pl. 120 (before the artist’s signature)
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 144
Robert Rosenblum, “Pablo Picasso, Pierrot; Head of a Man, Bust of a Man” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1999, illustrated in color p. 166
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Buste d'homme
Signed Picasso (upper right); dated 10.9.69 and numbered II (on the reverse)
Oil and Ripolin on canvas
51 1/4 by 38 1/8 in. 130.3 by 97 cm
Painted on September 10, 1969.
