Lot 417
  • 417

PABLO PICASSO | Femme nue couchée

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Femme nue couchée
  • Signed Picasso and dated 1er Decembre 54 III (upper left)
  • Pen and ink on paper
  • 13 3/4  by 17 in.
  • 35 by 43 cm
  • Executed on December 1, 1954.

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired on September 19, 1969)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York (acquired on December 23, 1987)
Acquired from the above

Exhibited

Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Art; Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston & San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Picasso, Braque, Léger: Masterpieces from Swiss Collections, 1975-76, n.n.  
Paris, Galerie Marwan Hoss & London, 12 Duke Street Gallery, Faces and Nudes: Drawings by Sculptors, 1982, no. 15
Basel, Galerie Beyler, Nudes—Nus—Nackte, 1984, no. 71 

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. XVI, Paris, 1965, no. 340, illustrated p. 122

Condition

This work is in overall good condition. Executed on cream laid paper. Hinged to a mount at four places on the verso. The edges of the sheet are deckled. The sheet is time struck overall and the edges are stained presumably due to a previous mounting. There is a repair to sheet on the right edge. A small loss to the sheet at the lower left corner.
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