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Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme (Françoise)

Auction Closed

March 4, 09:10 PM GMT

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Tête de femme (Françoise)

dated 20.7.50., numbered 2/2, inscribed Vallauris and with the foundry mark E. GODARD CIRE PERDU

bronze

height: 27.6 cm. 10⅞ in. 

Conceived in Vallauris in terracotta and cast in bronze on 20 July 1950 by the Godard Foundry, Paris. This work is number 2 from an edition of 2.


The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by the Comité Picasso.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Saidenberg Gallery, New York

Marlborough Gallery, New York (on consignment from the above from 5 December 1959)

Acquired from the above on 28 March 1972 by the present owner

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Contemporary Sculpture: A Loan Exhibition, 1972, no. 1, illustrated on the cover

Atlanta, High Museum of Art, European Masterworks: The Phillips Collection, 2019

Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Intersections: Sanford Biggers, 2021-22

Roland Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, New York, 1967, n.n., p. 124, another cast illustrated (titled Mask of a Woman)

Werner Spies, ed., Les Sculptures de Picasso, Lausanne, 1971, no. 352, n.p., another cast illustrated; p. 308

Exh. Cat., Nationalgalerie Berlin and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Picasso: Das Plastische Werk, 1983-84, no. 352, p. 348, another cast illustrated; no. 352 II, p. 387, this cast listed

Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Museu Picasso; Cologne, Museum Ludwig and Nuremberg, Germanischen National Museum, Picasso The Ludwig Collection, 1992-93, no. 138, n.p., terracotta version illustrated in colour (titled Grande tête sculpté au nœud and incorrectly catalogued)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and London, Royal Academy of Arts, Picasso: Painter and Sculptor in Clay, 1998-99, no. 101, p. 136, terracotta version illustrated in colour; p. 244

Werner Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Ostfildern and Stuttgart, 2000, no. 352, p. 368, another cast illustrated; no. 352 II, p. 409, this cast listed

Mark Jenkins, “At the Phillips Collection, a visual ‘conversation’ between Europe, Africa and Japan,” The Washington Post, 17 November 2021 (online)