Pablo Picasso

Lefevre Gallery, London
Douglas Cooper, Argilliers (and sold: Christie's, London, Drawings and Sculpture, Prints and Posters from the Douglas Cooper Collection, November 30, 1988, lot 543)
Christian Fayt, Brussels
Acquired from the above circa 1993

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1895 à 1906, vol. I, Paris, 1937, no. 380, illustration of another cast
Werner Spies, Picasso Sculpture, London, 1972, no.9, illustration of another cast p. 273

Dark brown patina, richly textured surface. Work is set into a wooden base. Minor patina rubbing to the top of the figure's head and on his brow and nose, as well as his ears. Minor spots of acretion on figure's left shoulder. Work is in very good condition.
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Ambroise Vollard, the artist's dealer at the time, cast an unknown number of Tête d'homme between 1906 and 1939. Douglas Cooper was reported to have said that this was the finest cast he had seen and considered it to be one of the earliest.