Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

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Property Sold to Benefit the Walker Art Center

Pablo Picasso

Femme assise

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Sold to Benefit the Walker Art Center

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Femme assise

bronze

height: 21 ½ in. 54.5 cm.

Conceived in wood in Boisgeloup circa 1930-31 and cast in bronze in 1937 in an edition of 4.


Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Estate of the artist

Kenneth and Judy Dayton, Minneapolis (acquired from the above through Pace Gallery on 2 July 1982)

Acquired as a gift from the above in 2022 by the present owner

André Breton, "Picasso dans son élément," Minotaure, no. 1, Paris, 1933, p. 23, illustration of another cast

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Callery Collection: Picasso-Léger, 1945, another cast illustrated (titled Standing Woman) 

David Kahnweiler, Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris, 1949, no. 35, illustration of another cast (titled Bronze)

Exh. Cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso, 1958, no. 13, p. 122, illustration of another cast (titled Standing Woman)

Roland Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, New York, 1967, no. 32, p. 70, illustration of the wood version (dated 1931)

Werner Spies, Sculpture by Picasso, New York, 1971, no. 86, p. 275, illustration of the wood version (titled Woman and dated 1931)

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Theodore Reff and Robert Rosenblum et al., Picasso in Retrospect, New York, 1973, no. 227, p. 140, illustration of the wood version (titled Group of Women and dated 1931) 

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pablo Picasso, 1980, p. 284, illustration of the wood version (dated 1931)

Exh. Cat., Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso, der Maler und seine Modelle, 1986, no. 102, p. 72, illustration in color of another cast (dated fall 1930)

Werner Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Ostfildern and Stuttgart, 2000, no. 86 II, illustration of another cast (dated fall 1930)

Exh. Cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, Picasso: 200 Masterworks from 1898 to 1972, 2001-02, no. 79, p. 217, illustration of another cast (titled Woman, Boisgeloup and dated 1931)

Yve-Alain Bois, ed., Picasso Harlequin 1917-1937, Milan, 2008, pp. 192-193, illustration of another cast (dated 1930)

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Picasso Sculpture, 2015-16, pp. 136-37 and 140, illustration in photographs of other casts; p. 148, illustration of the wood version (dated summer 1930)

New York, Pace Gallery, The Sculpture of Picasso, 1982, no. 6 (titled Femme and dated 1931)