Lot 718
  • 718

PABLO PICASSO | L’homme qui marche

Estimate
350,000 - 700,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • L’homme qui marche
  • signed and inscribed in French, dated 5.5.67
  • pastel on paper 
  • 36.8 by 26.2 cm; 14 ½ by 10 ⅜ in. 

Provenance

Collection of Mr and Mrs Pierre Briatre, France (Gift from the artist in May 1967)
Christie's, New York, 13 May 2016, Lot 1101
Acquired directly from the above by the present private Asian collector 

Exhibited

Paris, Musée Picasso, Picasso-Giacometti, 4 October 2016 - 5 February 2017

Condition

The work is overall in very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The present lot is drawn on the frontispiece of the 1962 publication of Douglas Cooper's Picasso, Le Déjeuners. 

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Claude Picasso.