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Lot 188
  • 188

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • TÊTE DE FEMME
  • pen and ink on paper
  • 15.6cm by 10.3cm., 6 1/8 by 4 1/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Thannhauser, Lucerne and New York
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Picasso, 1932, no. 262 
Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, no. 1608

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, Paris, 1954, vol. VI, no. 442, illustrated pl. 54
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Blue Period, 1902-1904, San Francisco, 2011, no. 1902-180, illustrated p. 58

Condition

Executed on buff-coloured laid paper, laid down on paper. There is a very fine line of discolouration to the extreme lower edge, not visible when framed. Otherwise, this work is in very good condition.
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