Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection

Picasso: Masterworks from the MGM Resorts Fine Art Collection

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Pablo Picasso

Femme au béret rouge-orange

Auction Closed

October 24, 01:48 AM GMT

Estimate

20,000,000 - 30,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Femme au béret rouge-orange


Dated 14.1.38 (lower right)

Oil and Ripolin on canvas

18 1/8 by 15 in. 46 by 38 cm

Painted on January 14, 1938.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (by descent from the above)
Sale: Christie’s, New York, November 10, 1987, lot 44
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
Galerie Urban, Paris (acquired from the above in 1989)
Itochu Gallery, Tokyo
Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired from the above 1997)
Mirage Resorts, Las Vegas (acquired from the above in July 1998)
Acquired from the above
David Douglas Duncan, Picasso’s Picassos, New York, 1961, illustrated p. 229
Françoise Gilot, “Pablo Picasso, Woman with Beret” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: Impressionist and Modern Masters, Las Vegas, 1998, illustrated in color p. 118
Françoise Gilot, “Pablo Picasso, Woman with Beret” in The Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art: European and American Masters, Las Vegas, 1999, illustrated in color p. 140
Laura Payne, Essential Picasso, London, 1999, p. 157
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso. From the Minotaur to Guernica (1927-1939), Barcelona, 2011, illustrated p. 361 (titled Portrait of a Woman with a Striped Beret)