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Pablo Picasso
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description
- Pablo Picasso
- LES DÉJEUNERS
- signed Picasso, dated 9.7.61. and numbered VII (centre right)
- pencil on paper
- 26.9 by 41.7cm., 10 5/8 by 16 3/8 in.
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired in 1966)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Private Collection, San Francisco (acquired in 1966)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Douglas Cooper, Pablo Picasso, Les Déjeuners, Paris, 1962, no. 97, illustrated n.p.
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1961 à 1962, Paris, 1968, vol. XX, no. 75, illustrated pl. 39
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, no. 61-140, illustrated p. 155
Condition
Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, hinged to the mount in the top two corners, floating in the mount. The upper edge of the sheet is perforated where it was spiralbound to the sketchbook. Apart from some very light surface dirt, this work is in very good original condition.
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"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
The present work is one of a series of 162 drawings by Picasso inspired by Manet's masterpiece Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe in the Collection of the Musée d'Orsay, which had caused such a furore at the Salon des Refusés in Paris in 1863. According to Susan Galassi, '...for Picasso, as for Manet, the Déjeuner offered the opportunity to reassess the central theme of the nude and invest it with new life. Over the course of his transformations, he strips away Manet's overlay of realism, and takes the female figure back to something more timeless, enduring and primordial' (S.G. Galassi, Picasso's Variations on the Masters, New York, 1996, p. 200).
This drawing is also a direct study for Picasso's Le Déjeuner (fig. I); it was drawn the day before the famous work was painted.
FIG. 1. Pablo Picasso, Les Déjeuners, 10th July 1961, oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie Museum, Stuttgart
This drawing is also a direct study for Picasso's Le Déjeuner (fig. I); it was drawn the day before the famous work was painted.
FIG. 1. Pablo Picasso, Les Déjeuners, 10th July 1961, oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie Museum, Stuttgart