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Property from the Neumann Family Collection

Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

Auction Closed

November 19, 02:32 AM GMT

Estimate

9,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Neumann Family Collection

Pablo Picasso

(1881 – 1973)


Buste de femme

signed Picasso (upper left); dated 24.3.49. (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

24 by 19 5/8 in.

61 by 50 cm. 

Executed on 24 March 1949.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Morton G. Neumann, Chicago (acquired from the above on 2 October 1951)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Selected Works, 1980-81, no. 89, p. 92, illustrated; p. 141 (titled Woman in Blue and dated 1948)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1946 à 1953, vol. XV, Paris, 1965, no. 137, pl. 81, illustrated (as oil on paper)