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Formerly from the Collections of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York and Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York

Pablo Picasso

Étude de main droite

Auction Closed

November 15, 10:48 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Formerly from the Collections of Walter P. Chrysler Jr., New York and Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Étude de main droite

signed Picasso and dated 20-1-21 (upper right)

pastel on paper

8¼ by 12⅝ in.

20.9 by 32.1 cm.

Executed on 20 January 1921.

Walter P. Chrysler Jr. (acquired from the artist circa April 1937)
Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York (acquired on 6 April 1955)
Hanns Weinberg, New York (acquired from the above on 11 March 1970)
Heinz Berggruen, Germany (acquired circa 1970-72)
William and Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, New York (acquired circa 1970-72 and until 1987)
Christie's New York, 13 May 1987, lot 120 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, United States (acquired from the above and until 2000)
Acquired from the above on 9 November 2000 by the present owner
New York, Valentine Gallery, Exhibition Drawings, Gouaches and Pastels by Picasso, 1937, no. 42
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Selected Exhibition of the Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., Collection, 1937, no. 115
New York, Jacques Seligmann & Co., Twenty Years in the Evolution of Picasso 1903-1923, 1937, no. 14, illustrated
Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago, Drawings by Pablo Picasso, Loaned by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1939, no. 21
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago; St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso – Forty Years of his Art, 1939-1940, no. 157, p. 105, illustrated
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Walter P. Chrysler Jr. Collection, 1941, no. 224
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, 1957-1958
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, 1969
Paul Gilbert, "Three Modern Artists Exhibit This Week," Chicago Sunday Herald Examiner, 8 January 1939
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York, 1946, p. 119, illustrated
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1920 à 1922, vol. IV, Paris, 1951, no. 239, pl. 83, illustrated
Sylvia K. Corwin, dir., Meet the Artist: Picasso, The Later Years; A Close-up in Sound and Color of his Life and Art, part I, New York, 1969, Miller-Brody Productions, audio footage, mentioned end of side B 
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., The Nelson A Rockefeller Collection: Masterpieces of Modern Art, New York, 1981, p. 104