Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

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Auction Closed

November 14, 01:23 AM GMT

Estimate

18,000,000 - 25,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Phillips Family Collection

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Buste de femme

signed Picasso (upper right)

gouache on paper mounted on board

25 by 19 ¼ in. 63.7 by 49 cm.

Executed in Spring 1909.

This lot is being exhibited at Sotheby’s New York in the pre-sale exhibition and offered for sale in situ from a location outside of New York. The Buyer of the lot shall be responsible for relocating it from the sale location in Delaware, and for obtaining the necessary insurance to do so and covering all associated costs and fees. Prospective buyers should contact Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern Art Department with inquiries at Jonathan.Boos@sothebys.com. Upon Sotheby’s receipt of the full purchase price in cleared funds, title to and right to possession of the lot will pass directly from the seller to the Buyer. The Buyer is obligated to arrange collection of the purchased lot, which collection must occur no later than five days after payment of the purchase price unless otherwise agreed in writing between Sotheby’s and the Buyer.

Ambroise Vollard, Paris

Mrs. Stead H. Stead-Ellis, London (acquired by 1953)

Lazarus Phillips, Montreal (acquired in 1956)

Thence by descent from the above

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1906 à 1912, vol. II*, Paris, 1942, no. 142, pl. 73, illustrated

Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Picasso, 1907-1916, Paris, 1977, no. 247, illustrated

Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Picasso, the Cubist Years, 1907-1916: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings and Related Works, London, 1979, no. 246, p. 236, illustrated

Anatoly Podoksik, Picasso: The Artist's Works in Soviet Museums, New York and Leningrad, 1989, no. 435, n.p., illustrated

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: Cubism (1907-1917), Barcelona, 1990, no. 333, p. 120, illustrated (titled Torso of Bather)

London, The Lefevre Gallery, Picasso 1898-1936, 1953, no. 8, p. 8, illustrated

The Art Gallery of Toronto and Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso and Man, 1964, no. 51, p. 64, illustrated (exhibited in Montreal only)

New York, The Frick Collection and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Picasso's Drawings 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition, 2011-12, no. 41, p. 181, illustrated in color