Lot 409
  • 409

Pablo Picasso

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

Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Nu couché
  • Signed Picasso and dated 20.9.69.I (upper right)
  • Pencil on paper
  • 18 7/8 by 24 1/4 in.
  • 47.9 by 61.5 cm

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Cook Fine Art, New York (acquired by 2005)
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

Exhibited

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso, 1881-1981, A Centennial Selection, 1981, no. 116
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Picasso, 2005, n.n.

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1969, vol. XXXI, Paris, 1976, no. 439, illustrated pl. 128

Condition

Executed on cream colored laid paper. All four edges are deckled. There is some tape residue to the upper left and upper right edges of the verso. The paper has a very minor wave. There is extremely minor studio medium transfer to the lower part of the right edge. The medium is very fresh and strong. The work is in excellent original condition.
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