Pablo Picasso

Vera Nemtchinova et Félix dansant

Auction Closed

May 17, 10:38 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Canadian Estate

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Vera Nemtchinova et Félix dansant

signed Picasso (lower left)

pencil on paper

12¼ by 9½ in.

31 by 24 cm.

Executed in London in 1919.

Paul Rosenberg, Paris
James Kirkman Gallery, London
Marlborough-Godard Gallery, Toronto
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Heisey, Toronto (acquired by 1979)
Thence by descent to the present owner

Douglas Cooper, Picasso et le théâtre, Paris 1968, p. 156

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux années 1914 à 1919, vol. XXIX, Paris 1975, no. 375, pl. 147, illustrated

Federico Sopeña Ibañez, Picasso y la Música, Madrid 1982, p. 75

Douglas Cooper, Picasso Theatre, New York 1987, p. 156

Exh. Cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Picasso Le Tricorne: Dessins pour le décor et les costumes du ballet de Manuel de Falla, 1992, p. 24

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Dels ballets al drama (1917-1926), Barcelona 1999, pp. III and 479, illustrated

John Richardson, A Life of Picasso. Volume III: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932, New York 2007, p. 116, illustrated

Winnipeg Art Gallery; Calgary, Glenbow-Alberta Institute; Vancouver Art Gallery; The Edmonton Art Gallery and Toronto, Mira Godard Gallery, Picasso—A Selection of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings (1902-1972), 1978-1979, no. 2, illustrated
Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Picasso at Large in Toronto Collections, 1988, no. 23