Lot 37
  • 37

Pablo Picasso

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Étude pour Mademoiselle Léonie I
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 12 1/2 by 8 1/2 in.
  • 31.7 by 21.5 cm

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)

Exhibited

Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Opera dal 1895-1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso, 1981, no. 85
Munich, Haus der Kunst; Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle; Frankfurt, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut & Zurich, Kunsthaus, Pablo Picasso. Eine Ausstellung zum hundertsten Geburtstag. Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, 1981-82, no. 70, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Tokyo, National Gallery of Modern Art & Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Picasso, Masterpieces from the Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in USA and USSR, 1983, no. 57, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria & Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Picasso, 1984, no. 39, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Picasso, Oeuvres cubistes de la collection Marina Picasso, 1986, no. 111, illustrated in the catalogue
Tokyo, Seibu Art Forum & Ohtsu, Seibu Hall, Pablo Picasso, Collection Marina Picasso, 1990-91, no. 36, illustrated in the catalogue
Barcelona, Fundacio Caixa de Barcelona, Picasso cubista 1907-1920, Colección Marina Picasso, 1987, no. 11, illustrated in the catalogue
Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, Picasso the Draughtsman, 103 Works from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1993, no. 18
Schwerin, Staatliches Museum, Pablo Picasso, Der Reiz der Fläche/The Appeal of Surface, 1999, no. 29, illustrated in the catalogue
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Ditesheim & Cie & New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Pablo Picasso, Metamorphoses, Works from 1898 to 1973 from the Marina Picasso Collection, 2001-02, no. 20, illustrated in the catalogue
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Picasso und die Schweiz, 2001-02, no. 79, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature

Pepe Karmel, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism, New Haven & London, 2003, no. 98, illustrated p. 80

Condition

Executed on ivory coloured laid paper, which has not been laid down. There is some time staining to the sheet along the left edge and further light staining to the upper left and lower right corners. There is a repair to the lower right corner with associated handling surface dirt and time staining. The medium is fresh and strong. The work is in very good condition.
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