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Property from the George Encil Collection

Pablo Picasso

Montaignes près de Malaga

Lot Closed

October 17, 12:18 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Montaignes près de Malaga

signed P. Ruiz Picasso, dated Bareclona 97, and dedicated A mi querido amigo D. Hermenegildo, Montes (lower left)

oil on canvas

60.4 by 82.2 cm. 23¾ by 32⅜ in.

Framed: 94.5 by 116 cm. 37¼ by 41¾ in.

Executed in 1897.

Hermenegildo Montes (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Galerie Paulette Jourdain, Paris

Acquired in 1950 by the present owner

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso: The early years 1892-1906, 1997-1998, n.n., listed

Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Picasso landscapes, 1890-1912: from the Academy to the avant-garde, Barcelona, 1994, no. 47

Saint-Tropez, Musée de Saint-Tropez, Picasso en Méditerranée: l'Annonciade, 2007, no. 2, p. 12, illustrated (Paysage près de Barcelone)

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, vol. 6, Paris, 1954, no. 100, pl. 13, illustrated (with inverted dimensions)

Jesús Gutiérrez Buron, 'Picasso y las exposiciones nacionales, tradición y ruptura' in, V Congreso Español de Historia del Arte, Barcelona, 1984, p. 59

George Encil, Experience and Adventures of a Collector, Paris, 1989, pp. 278-80, illustrated in colour