
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
La Minotauromachie
Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Leonard A. Lauder, Collector
Pablo Picasso
(1881-1973)
La Minotauromachie
signed Picasso in ink (lower right) and inscribed (une des trente épreuves du tirage) (lower left)
etching with scraper and engraving on Montval laid paper
plate: 19 ½ by 27 ¼ in. 49.6 by 69.3 cm.
sheet: 22 ¼ by 30 ⅜ in. 56.4 by 77.3 cm.
Executed in 1935, a richly inked impression of the seventh (final) state.
Private Collection, Europe
Sotheby’s, London, 5 December 1984, lot 205 (consigned by the above)
Ronald Lauder, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Estée Lauder, New York (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Christian Zervos, ed., "Picasso 1930-1935," Cahiers d’art, 1936, p. 85, another impression illustrated
Paul Eluard, À Pablo Picasso, Geneva and Paris, 1944, pl. 102, another impression illustrated
Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés, Picasso, London, 1952, p. 401, another impression illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sixty Years of Graphic Works, 1966, no. 181, p. 76, another impression illustrated
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso, catalogue de l’œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1904-1967, vol. I, Bern, 1968, no. 288, pp. 86 and 87, another impression illustrated
André Fermigier, Picasso, 1969, no. 161, p. 243, another impression illustrated
Francis Ponge, Pierre Descargues and Edward Quinn, Picasso, Paris, 1974, p. 212, another impression illustrated
Timothy Hilton, Picasso, London, 1975, no. 166, p. 225, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur, vol. III, Bern, 1986, no. 573, frontispiece and p. 24, another impression illustrated
Sebastian Goeppert and Herma C. Goeppert-Frank, Minotauromachy by Pablo Picasso, Geneva, 1987, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur, addendum au catalogue raisonné, Bern, 1996, no. 573, p. 28, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso The Engraver, New York, 1997, no. 68, p. 83, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 711, p. 292, another impression illustrated
Kathleen Brunner, Picasso Rewriting Picasso, London, 2004, pp. 8 and 20-21, another impression illustrated
Exh. Cat., Malaga, Museo Picasso, Picasso. Toros, 2005, p. 84, another impression illustrated
Stephen Coppel, Picasso Prints—The Vollard Suite, London, 2012, p. 37, another impression illustrated
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