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Lot 18
  • 18

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
1,000,000 - 1,500,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Palette et tĂȘte de taureau
  • dated 10.12.38 on the stretcher
  • oil and ink on canvas
  • 73.5 by 92.1 cm ; 28 7/8 by 36 1/4 in.

Provenance

The Artist's Estate

Exhibited

Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria & Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso, 1984, no. 115
Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Picasso at Work at Home, Selections from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1985-86, no. 78
Japon, Association des Musées d'Art Yomiuri Shimbun Sha, Exposition Pablo Picasso : Collection Marina Picasso, 1986-1987, no. PM-14
Croydon, Croydon Clock Tower, A Picasso Bestiary, 1995, n.n.
Hartford (CT), Wadsworth Atheneum, Picasso, The Artist's Studio, 2001, no. 34
Paris, Musée Picasso, Picasso, Sous le soleil de Mithra, 2001-02, n.n.
Valence, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, El fuego bajo las cenizas (de Picasso à Basquiat), 2005, n.n.
Münster, Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso, Picasso : im Atelier des Künstlers, 2011, n.n.

Literature

David Douglas Duncan, Picasso's Picassos, The Treasures of La Californie, London, 1961, illustrated p. 236
Picasso & les choses, les natures mortes (exhibition catalogue), Cleveland (PA) & Paris, 1992, illustrated fig. 101b, p. 256 (titled Tête de taureau, palette et pinceaux sur une table)
Neil Cox & Deborah Povey, A Picasso Bestiary, London, 1995, illustrated pp. 28 (detail) & 47
Michael Fitzgerald, Picasso, The Artist's Studio, New Haven & London, 2001, pp. 138 & 140, illustrated p. 141

Condition

This work is in excellent original condition. The canvas is not lined. A close inspection reveals two tiny spots of paint-loss in the lower right quadrant and a tiny pinhole towards the upper part of the right edge. There is some very minor old frame abrasion along the upper right edge and the left part of the upper edge but this is not visible when framed. There is no evidence of retouching visible under UV light.
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