Lot 109
  • 109

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Nu debout et amour
  • Signed Picasso and dated 16.12.68 I (upper left)
  • Pen and ink, brush and ink and pastel on paper

  • 16 3/4 by 12 in.
  • 42.5 by 30.5 cm

Provenance

Galerie Marcel Bernheim, Paris
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich
Private Collection, Zurich
Ronnie Meyerson, Inc.
Acquired from the above in 1990

Exhibited

Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Picasso: Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, 1988, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1967 et 1968, vol. XXVII, Paris, 1973, no. 394, illustrated pl. 169
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, San Francisco, 1997, no. 68-233, illustrated p. 78

Condition

Executed on pale blue notebook paper. Top edge shows spiral perforation. Work is affixed to a mat at the top corners of verso, minor tape residue at the bottom corners of verso. One centimeter mat stain along the right edge. Minor fading in the ink at upper left, otherwise medium is well maintained. Work is in very good condition
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