Lot 222
  • 222

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Arlequin
  • signed Picasso (lower left)
  • black crayon on paper
  • 19.8 by 10.5cm., 7 3/4 by 4 1/4 in.

Provenance

Private Collection, Europe
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2011

Exhibited

Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, Pablo Picasso, Portrait, Figurine, Skulptur, 1989, illustrated in colour in the catalogue 
Karlsruhe, Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg, Picasso, Zeichner des Menschen, 1996, no. 30, illustrated in colour in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux années 1914 à 1919, Paris, 1975, vol. XXIX, no. 287, illustrated pl. 116 
Anne Baldassari, Roland Doschka & Marilyn McCully, Pablo Picasso, Metamorphoses of the Human Form, Graphic Works, 1895-1972, New York, 2000, no. 76, illustrated n.p (dated as 1916)
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, no. 18-042, illustrated p. 111 

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and hinged to the mount in two places along the upper edge. The work is overall in very good condition.
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