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Pablo Picasso
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
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Description
- Pablo Picasso
- Nature morte aux verres
- Signed Picasso (upper left)
- Oil on canvas
- 10 5/8 by 16 in.
- 27 by 40.6 cm
Provenance
Mr. & Mrs. S.M. McAshan, Jr., Houston (acquired by 1944)
Private Collection, Texas (by descent from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 4, 2010, lot 349)
Acquired at the above sale
Private Collection, Texas (by descent from the above and sold: Christie's, New York, November 4, 2010, lot 349)
Acquired at the above sale
Exhibited
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Picasso Exhibit, 1955, no. 26 (titled The Crystals and dated 1944)
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, From Gauguin to Gorky in Cullinan Hall, 1960, no. 54 (dated circa 1940)
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Finders/Keepers, 1997, illustrated in the catalogue (dated circa 1940)
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, From Gauguin to Gorky in Cullinan Hall, 1960, no. 54 (dated circa 1940)
Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Finders/Keepers, 1997, illustrated in the catalogue (dated circa 1940)
Literature
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1943 et 1944, vol. XIII, Paris, 1962, no. 130, illustrated pl. 70
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Nazi Occupation 1940-1944, San Francisco, 1999, no. 43-302, illustrated p. 288
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Nazi Occupation 1940-1944, San Francisco, 1999, no. 43-302, illustrated p. 288
Condition
The work is in excellent condition. The canvas has not been lined. The surface is nicely textured and the impasto has been well preserved. Under UV light: no inpainting is apparent.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
The still life developed as Picasso's preferred motif during World War II, for in the commonplace subject he found a means of escape. Thus rather than documenting the chaotic reality of his surroundings, he successfully created an alternate, meticulously structured reality. Frances Morris wrote of Picasso's still lifes of the early 1940s: “above all it was the still-life genre that Picasso developed into a tool capable of evoking the most complex blend of pathos and defiance, of despair to hope, balancing personal and universal experience in an expression of extraordinary emotional power. The hardship of daily life, the fragility of human existence and the threat of death are themes that haunt Picasso's still-life paintings of the war and Liberation periods” (Frances Morris, Paris Post War, Art and Existentialism 1945-1955 (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1993, p. 155).