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Property from an Important American Collection

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme

Live auction begins on:

June 24, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Tête de femme

signed Picasso (lower left); dated 5.1.63. and numbered I (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

65 by 54.4 cm. 25⅝ by 20½ in.

Executed on 5 January 1963.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York (acquired by 1965)

Donald and Jean Stralem, New York

Sotheby’s, New York, 8 May 1995, lot 38 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

New York, Samuel Kootz Gallery, 1965

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (extended loan 1990-91)

Hélène Parmelin, Picasso: Les dames de Mougins, Paris, 1964, p. 197, illustrated in colour

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1962 et 1963, vol. 23, Paris, 1971, no. 113, pl. 63, illustrated