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Pablo Picasso. Personnages: Unique Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

Pablo Picasso

Nus - recto Tête d'homme - verso

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March 26, 01:17 PM GMT

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20,000 - 30,000 GBP

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Pablo Picasso. Personnages: Unique Works from the Collection of Marina Picasso

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Nus - recto

Tête d'homme -verso


pen and ink on paper - recto& verso 

32 by 24.8cm., 12⅝ by 9⅞in.

Framed: 62.5 by 52.5cm., 24⅝ by 20¾in.

Executed in Paris in 1907 (recto); executed in Paris in 1909 (verso).

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist's granddaughter; acquired from the above)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Supplément aux années 1907 à 1909, Paris, 1973, vol 26, recto no. 178, illustrated pl. 54; verso no. 184, illustrated pl. 56
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso. Volume I: The Prodigy, 1881-1906, New York, 1991, recto, illustrated p. 409
Norman Mailer, Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography, New York, 1995, recto, illustrated p. 208
Natasha Staller, A Sum of Destruction: Picasso’s Cultures and Creation of Cubism, New Haven and London, 2001, recto no. 299, illustrated p. 316