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Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Buste de femme

signed Picasso (upper left); dated 10.1.68. and numbered II (lower left); dated 10.1.68. and numbered II (on the verso)

brush and ink, felt-tip pen and pencil on paper

47.7 by 58.2 cm. 18¾ by 22⅞ in.

Executed on 10 January 1968.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Alexander Iolas, Paris

Acquired from the above on 12 June 1973 by the present owner

Charles Feld, Picasso Dessins 27.3.66 15.3.68, Paris, 1969, no. 341, n.p., illustrated in colour

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1967 et 1968, vol. XXVII, Paris, 1973, no. 189, pl. 68, illustrated

Isa Vercelloni, Styles of Living. The Best of Casa Vogue, London, 1985, p. 157, illustrated in colour in photograph of Alexander Iolas' Athens villa