Lot 145
  • 145

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Le Danseur
  • Signed Picasso and dated 22.12.59 (upper left)
  • Pen and ink on paper mounted on canvas
  • 14 1/2 by 20 3/8 in.
  • 36.5 by 51.8 cm

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Acquired from the above in the 1960s

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1969, vol. XIX, Paris, 1968, no. 114, illustrated p. 27
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Fifties, 1956-1959, San Francisco, 2000, no. 59-343, illustrated p. 372

Condition

Executed on paper laid down on canvas. This work appears to be in very good overall condition.
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