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Leonard A. Lauder, Collector

Pablo Picasso

La Minotauromachie

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

Lot Details

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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