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Property from a Private European Collection

Pablo Picasso

Morphinomanes

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

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

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private European Collection

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Morphinomanes

signed Picasso (lower right)

oil and pastel on canvas

21¾ by 18¼ in.

55.2 by 46.4 cm

Executed in 1900.


Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Please refer to Sothebys.com for updated provenance on this lot.

Madame Besnard, Paris

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 June 1923, lot 97 (consigned by the above)

Max Linder, Paris

Antonio Santamarina Irazusta, Argentina (acquired by 1930)

Sotheby's, London, 2 April 1974, lot 32 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

John Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. I, New York 1991, p. 168, illustrated 
Buenos Aires, Jacques Helft, L'École de Paris, 1951, no. 53
Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Dibujos, Siglos XIX y XX, 1959, no. 64 (with incorrect dimensions)