Lot 131
  • 131

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Nu assis sur un coussin
  • signed Picasso, dated 7.2.71 and numbered II (upper left)
  • pencil on paper
  • 32 by 18.8cm., 12 1/2 by 7 3/8 in.

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris
Sale: Artcurial-Briest-Le Fur-Poulain-F. Tajan, Paris, 7th June 2006, lot 16
Purchased from the above sale by the present owner

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1971 à 1972, Paris, 1978, vol. XXXIII, no. 35, illustrated p. 12

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, laid down on paper, supported by two sheets of glass and floating in the mount. All four edges are slightly unevenly cut. This work is in overall very good condition.
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