THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
PABLO PICASSO | FUMEUR
Auction Closed
July 28, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
THE EUROPEAN AVANT-GARDE: A PRIVATE FAMILY COLLECTION
PABLO PICASSO
1881 - 1973
FUMEUR
pen and ink and charcoal on paper
30.7 by 19.5cm., 12 by 7⅝in.
Executed in Sorgues in the Summer of 1912.
Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (the artist’s granddaughter; acquired from the above)
Galerie Thomas, Munich
Acquired from the above
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Picasso. Œuvres Cubistes de la Collection Marina Picasso, 1986, no. 110, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1911-12)
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Supplément aux années 1910-1913, Paris, 1974, vol. 28, no. 99, illustrated pl. 52
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso Cubisme (1907-1917), Paris, 1990, no. 657, illustrated p. 237 (titled Projet de portrait and as dating from Autumn 1911)
P. Karmel, Picasso and the Invention of Cubism, New Haven, 2010, figs. 108 & 195, illustrated pp. 88 & 148 (as dating from Summer 1911)