Lot 325
  • 325

PABLO PICASSO | Autoportrait

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Autoportrait
  • pencil on paper
  • 18.2 by 9.4cm., 7 1/8 by 3 3/4 in.
  • Drawn in 1902-03.

Provenance

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

Exhibited

Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Picasso at Work at Home, Selections from the Marina Picasso Collection, 1985-86, no. 7, illustrated in the catalogue
Japan, L'Association des Musées d'Art Yomiuri Shimbun Sha, Exposition Pablo Picasso, Collection Marina Picasso, 1986-87, no. D-10, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, Paris, 1954, vol. VI, no. 507, illustrated p. 62
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso Vivo (1881-1907), Barcelona, 1980, no. 811, illustrated p. 320
William Rubin, Picasso and Portraiture. Representation and Transformation, New York, 1996, n.n., illustrated p. 128
Susan Grace Galassi, Picasso's Variations on the Masters, New York, 1996, no. 2-11, illustrated p. 34

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, and hinged to the over-mount at two points along the upper edge. There is a faint drawing of a woman on the verso of the sheet. The edges are uneven. The sheet is slightly time-stained. There are some faint flattened creases running diagonally in the lower left corner, not visible when framed. There is a faint spot of foxing towards the upper left edge. This work is in overall good condition.
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