Property from a Private Collection, United Kingdom
Pablo Picasso
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, United Kingdom
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
signed Picasso (lower left); dated 27.7.61. (lower right)
pastel on canvas
59.9 by 73 cm. 23 ½ by 28 ⅛ in.
Framed: 76.8 by 89.7 cm. 30 ¼ by 35 ⅜ in.
Executed in Mougins on 27 July 1961.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Brook Street Gallery, London (acquired from the above)
Private Collection, Johannesburg (acquired from the above on 15 January 1973)
Private Collection, Johannesburg (acquired from the above by descent in 1979)
Acquired as a gift from the above circa 1992 by the present owner
Douglas Cooper, Les Déjeuners, Paris, 1962, no. 148, n.p., illustrated in colour
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1961 à 1962, vol. 20, Paris, 1968, no. 110, pl. 56, illustrated