PABLO PICASSO | FEMME ASSISE

Lot Closed

May 18, 04:30 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Collection

PABLO PICASSO

(1881 - 1973)

FEMME ASSISE

Inscribed Picasso, numbered 8/12 and stamped with the foundry mark A. Rudier Fondeur.Paris

Bronze

Height (not including base): 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Executed in clay in 1902 and cast in bronze at a later date in an edition of 12 plus one cast numbered 0.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Elizabeth Royer, Paris

Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above circa 1995 and sold: Sotheby's, London, February 6, 2013, lot 412)

Acquired at the above sale

John Richardson, Picasso, An American Tribute, New York, 1962, no. 2, illustration of another cast n.p.

Roland Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, New York, 1967, illustration of another cast p. 50

Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso, Das Plastiche Werk, Berlin, 1983, no. 1, illustrations of another cast pp. 15 & 326

Werner Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Paris, 2000, no. 1, illustration of another cast p. 19

Brassaï: Picasso conversations avec la lumière (exhibition catalogue), Musée Picasso, Paris, 2000, illustration of the work in a photograph by Brassaï p. 293