Lot 16
  • 16

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Nu couché (Reclining nude)
  • signed Picasso, numbered V and dated 14.7.72. (upper left)
  • pencil on paper
  • 13.6 by 20.3cm., 5 1/8 by 8in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Italy (sale: Sotheby's London, 24th June 2014, 316)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso, 1972, no. 134, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1971-1972, Paris, 1978, vol. 33, no. 466, illustrated pl. 161
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculptures, The Final years, 1970-1973, San Francisco, 2002, no. 72-204, illustrated p. 332

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and floating in the mount. The sheet is hinged to the mount at two points along the verso of the upper edge. The left and right edges are unevenly cut. The sheet is lightly time-stained and there are some very faint studio marks at centre right and upper left, possibly original. There are two tiny specks of foxing. This work is in overall very good condition.
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