Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction

Property from an Important Private Collection, Italy

Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

Auction Closed

March 4, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Buste de femme

signed Picasso and dated 7 juillet 53 (upper left)

oil on canvas

64.2 by 54 cm. 25¼ by 21¼ in.

Executed in Vallauris on 7 July 1953.

Riccardo and Magda Jucker, Milan

Private Collection, Trento (acquired by 1983)

Thence by descent to the present owners

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. XVI, Paris, 1965, no. 4, pl. 3, illustrated

New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Pablo Picasso 1950-1953, 1953, no. 17, illustrated

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Picasso 1938-1953, 1954, no. 7, illustrated

Verona, Galleria dello Scudo, Picasso. Dipinti 1918-1968. Acquerelli, disegni, incisioni e litografie 1904-1972, 1983, no. 18, illustrated in colour (with inverted dimensions)

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