Lot 113
  • 113

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme debout
  • Numbered 6/10 and stamped with the foundry mark C. Valsuani Cire Perdue
  • Bronze
  • Height: 7 7/8 in.
  • 20 cm

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Davidson Gallery, New York
Sale: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, March 20, 1979, lot 176
Private Collection, Houston (acquired at the above sale and sold: Sotheby's, New York, May 4, 2006, lot 365)
Waddington Galleries, London (acquired at the above sale and until February 2007)
Private Collection, Tokyo
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, James Goodman Gallery, Fall 1969, no. 58, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Werner Spies, Sculpture by Picasso, New York, 1971, no. 322, illustration of another cast p. 181
Werner Spies, Picasso, Das plastiches werk, Stuttgart, 1983, no. 322, illustration of another cast p. 346
Werner Spies & Christine Piot, Picasso: The Sculptures, New York, 2000, no. 322, illustration of another cast p. 366

Condition

Golden brown patina. Work is affixed to a base at one point on the underside. Some accretion in the deeper crevices, otherwise fine. This work is in excellent condition.
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