Lot 45
  • 45

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Portrait d'Angel Fernández de Soto. Buste
  • signé Picasso (en bas à droite)
  • encre et crayon sur papier
  • 20 x 13 cm ; 7 5/8 x 5 1/8 in.

Provenance

Guillaume Apollinaire, Paris (probablement acquis directement auprès de l'artiste)
Brame & Lorenceau, Paris
Acquis auprès du précédent par le propriétaire actuel en 2007

Exhibited

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Guillaume Apollinaire, 1969, no. 115
Barcelone, Museu Picasso, Picasso and els 4 Gats, The key to Modernity, 1995-96, no. 170, reproduit dans le catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. XXII : supplément aux années 1903-06, Paris, 1970, no. 41, reproduit pl. 14
Pierre Caizergues & Hélène Seckel, Correspondance Picasso Apollinaire, Paris, 1992, no. 14, reproduit p. 48

Condition

Executed on cream wove previously folded paper, laid down on paper, fixed to the mount along all four edges. There are three minor creases due to the previous folding running horizontally with some additional very minor creasing on the lower right quadrant and towards the right edge. Apart from some slight light staining along the upper and lower edges, this work is in good condition.
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Catalogue Note

signed 'Picasso' (lower right); ink and pencil on paper. Executed in Barcelona in 1903.