Lot 85
  • 85

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • PICADOR ET FEMME
  • signé Picasso, daté 8.6.60. IV (en bas à droite)

  • encre et lavis sur papier
  • 66 x 51,5 cm
  • 26 x 20 1/4 in.

Provenance

Collection particulière, France

Literature

Jaime Sabartés, A los toros avec Picasso, Monte-Carlo, 1961, no. 75
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1959 à 1961, Paris, 1968, vol. XIX, no. 330, reproduit p. 101
Alan Wofsky Fine Arts (Ed.), The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, no. 60-210, reproduit p. 75

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, taped to the overmount along all four edges. There is a slight waviness to the sheet, with associated minor flattened creases to the edges, due to the mounting. Apart from some light time staining along the edges and a slight discolouration of the paper, this work is in overall good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Picasso', dated '8.6.60. IV' (lower right), ink and wask on paper. Executed on 6th August 1960.