Pablo Picasso

Deux personnages

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June 28, 12:29 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Deux personnages

signed Picasso (upper left) and dated 16.12.53. (upper right)

pen and ink and ink wash on paper

20.9 by 26.4 cm. 8¼ by 10⅜ in.

Framed: 51.5 by 55.2 cm. 20¼ by 21¾ in.

Executed in Cannes on 16 December 1953.

Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1989)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1953 à 1955, Paris, 1965, vol. 16, no. 57, pl. 20, illustrated
Dore Ashton, Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views, New York, 1972, p. 125, illustrated