Lot 373
  • 373

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Rusinol et Casas
  • Signed at a later date Picasso (lower left)
  • Pen and ink and colored crayon on card
  • 5 1/4 by 3 5/8 in.
  • 13.3 by 9.2 cm

Provenance

Sebastián Junyer-Vidal, Barcelona 
Private Collection, Barcelona
O'Hana Gallery, London
Sidney and Esther Rabb, Boston
Thence by descent

Exhibited

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery; London, O'Hana Gallery; Warwickshire, Stoneleigh Abbey & Geneva, Galerie Motte, Picasso, His Blue Period, Pastels, Watercolors and Drawings from the Junyer Vidal Collection, Barcelona, 1960, no. 24

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux volumes 1 a 5, vol. VI, Paris, 1954, no. 492, illustrated pl. 61 (shown with earlier signature which subsequently faded and Picasso re-signed the work at a later date)
Roland Penrose, Portrait of Picasso, New York, 1957, fig. 30, illustrated p. 20
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Turn of the Century - 1900-1901, San Francisco, 2010, no. 1901-127, illustrated p. 136

Condition

Executed on buff-colored card, hinged to a mount along the top edge of the verso. Ink is slightly faded and card is slightly time-darkened. Otherwise fine, work is in very good condition.
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