Pablo Picasso

Homme accroupi et femme nue

Artist's Resale Right

Auction Closed

June 30, 02:45 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collector, London

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Homme accroupi et femme nue

signed Picasso and dated 2. mai. 40. (lower right)

pen and ink on paper

38 by 46cm., 15 by 18⅛in.

Framed: 58 by 66.5cm., 22¾ by 26⅛in.

Drawn in May 1940.

Mrs Fulton Cutting, New Jersey (probably acquired circa 1950; sold by her estate: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 3rd May 1973, lot 30)

Henry Ford II, Detroit (purchased at the above sale. Sold by his estate: Sotheby's, New York, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures from the Estate of Henry Ford II, 12th November 1990, lot 31)

Private Collection, Paris (purchased at the above sale)

Sale: Christie's, London, 1st December 1992, lot 218

Stanley J. Seeger, UK (sold: Sotheby's, New York, Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 8th May 2001, lot 59)

Private Collection, Europe (purchased at the above sale. Sold: Sotheby's, London, 23rd June 2010, lot 316)

Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Matisse and Picasso: A Gentle Rivalry, 1999, no. 120, illustrated in the catalogue

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1939 et 1940, Paris, 1959, vol. 10, no. 516, illustrated pl. 151
Marilyn McCully, Picasso: A Private Collection, London, 1993, illustrated p. 171