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Property from a Private Collection, United States

PABLO PICASSO | LA CHOUETTE EN COLÈRE

Auction Closed

October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States

PABLO PICASSO

1881 - 1973

LA CHOUETTE EN COLÈRE


Signed Picasso

Painted and partially glazed ceramic 

Height: 11⅝ in.

29.5 cm

Executed in 1953; this work is unique. 


Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Otto Gerson Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1957 

Picasso, An American Tribute (exhibition catalogue), Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, 1962, illustration of the bronze version n.p.

The Sculpture of Picasso (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1967, illustration of a related example p. 141 

Roland Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, New York, 1967, illustration of a related example p. 141 

Picasso. Sculptures. Ceramics. Graphic Works (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, illustration of the bronze version p. 66

George Ramié, Picasso Keramik, Bern, 1980, no. 157, illustration of a related example p. 68

Werner Spies, Picasso, Das Plastische Werk, Stuttgart, 1983, no. 404-III, illustration of a related example p. 390

Marie-Laure Besnard-Bernadac, Michèle Richet & Hélène Seckel, Musée Picasso, Catalogue sommaire des collections, Paris, 1985, no. 472, illustration of another example p. 214

Pablo Picasso. Ceramiques (exhibition catalogue), Vallauris, Atelier Sassi-Milci, 1986, illustration of a related example n.p.

Werner Spies, Picasso: The Sculpture. Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, no. 404 III, illustration of a related example p. 373