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Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection

Pablo Picasso

Baigneuses, sirènes, femme nue et minotaure

Live auction begins on:

June 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 4,500,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Baigneuses, sirènes, femme nue et minotaure

dated mars 37. (lower right); dated mars 37. (on the reverse)

Ripolin, gouache, pen and India ink on board

22.4 by 26.5 cm. 8¾ by 10½ in.

Executed in March 1937. 

Estate of the artist 

Private Collection, Europe (acquired by descent from the above) 

Christie’s, New York, 10 July 2020, lot 65 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Picasso: Drawings and Watercolours since 1893, an exhibition in honour of the Artist’s 70th birthday, 1951, no. 55 (titled The Minotaure carries off a woman and with incorrect medium)

Santiago, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and Concepción, Casa del Arte, Picasso Toros, 1999-2000, no. 56, p. 19, illustrated (titled Minotauro en una barca rescatando a una mujer and with incorrect medium) 

Milan, Palazzo Reale, Picasso. 200 Masterworks from 1898 to 1972, 2001-02, no. 95, p. 232, illustrated in colour (titled Minotaur in a Boat Saving a Woman and with incorrect medium)

Málaga, Museo Picasso, Picasso: Anthology, 1895-1971, 2004-05, no. 75, p. 41, illustrated; p. 139, illustrated in colour (titled Minotaure on a Boat Saving a Woman

New York, Gagosian Gallery, Picasso and The Camera, 2014-15, no. 180, illustrated in colour (titled Minotaure dans une barque sauvant une femme and with incorrect medium)

London, Gagosian Gallery, Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors, 2017, p. 45, illustrated in colour; n. p., illustrated (detail); n.p., illustrated (titled Minotaure dans une barque sauvant une femme and with incorrect medium)

Málaga, Museo Picasso, Y Fellini soñó con Picasso, 2018, p. 73, illustrated in colour (titled Minotauro en una barca salvando a una mujer and with incorrect medium) 

Paris, Cinémathèque Française, Quand Fellini rêvait de Picasso, 2019, pp. 36-37, illustrated in colour (titled Minotaure dans une barque sauvant une femme and with incorrect medium)

Roland Penrose, Picasso: His Life and Work, London, 1958, no. 8, pl. XV, illustrated (titled Minotaur with a Boat and with incorrect medium)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Œuvres de 1937 à 1939, vol. 9, Paris, 1958, no. 97, pl. 43, illustrated 

Arianna S. Huffington, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, London, 1988, no. 38, n.p., illustrated (titled The Minotaur Carries Off a Woman)

Herschel B. Chipp, Picasso’s Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings, London, 1989, no. 6.38, p. 91, illustrated (titled Minotaur and women)

Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Picassos Surrealismus, 1991, fig. 48b, p. 328, illustrated 

Ludwig Ullmann, Picasso und der Krieg, Bonn, 1993, no. 93, p. 78, illustrated (titled Minotaurus, eine tote in ein boot tragend and with incorrect medium)

Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 767, p. 314, illustrated in colour; p. 519 (titled Bathers, Mermaids, Nude, and Minotaur and with incorrect medium)

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica, 1927-1939, Barcelona, 2011, no. 886, p. 286, illustrated in colour; p. 443 (titled Minotaur in a Boat Saving a Woman and with incorrect medium) 

Exh. Cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, L’amour fou: Picasso and Marie-Thérèse, 2011, fig. 34, p. 39, illustrated in colour (titled Minotaure dans une barque sauvant une femme and with incorrect medium)

Museo Picasso Málaga, ed.,

Dialogues with Picasso, 2020-23 Collection, Malaga, 2023, p. 246, illustrated in colour (titled Minotaur in a Boat Saving a Woman and with incorrect medium)