Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 131. Nu devant la glace.

Property of a Private American Collection

Pablo Picasso

Nu devant la glace

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

12,000,000 - 18,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private American Collection

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Nu devant la glace

signed Picasso and dated Boisgeloup 26 juin XXXII (upper left)

oil and Ripolin on canvas

10 ⅝ by 13 ¾ in. 27 by 35 cm.

Executed in Boisgeloup on 26 June 1932.

Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York 
Henry Ford II, Detroit (acquired from the above)
Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen, Villanova (acquired from the above through M. Knoedler & Co. on 16 June 1964)
Sotheby's, New York, 17 October 1973, lot 35 (consigned by the above)
Spencer Samuels, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Heinz Berggruen, Paris 
Sotheby's, New York, 20 May 1982, lot 223 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Europe (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, New York, 11 May 1987, lot 74 (consigned by the above)
Steven Cooperman, Los Angeles and Connecticut (acquired at the above sale)
AXA Nordstern Art Insurance Corporation (acquired from the above)
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 2001 by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Oeuvres de 1926 à 1932, vol. VII, Paris, 1955, no. 388, pl. 171, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Picassos Surrealismus, Werke 1925-1937, 1991, no. 39a, p. 324, illustrated

Enrique Mallen, La Sintaxis de la carne: Pablo Picasso y Marie Thérèse Walter, Santiago, 2005, p. 296

Paris, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d'oeuvres récentes de Picasso, 1936, no. 13 (titled Devant la glace)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1964
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1965
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1967
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1968
Palm Beach, The Society of the Four Arts, The Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen: An exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, 1969, no. 35, illustrated
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1969
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1970
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1971
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Summer Loan Exhibition, 1972
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Collection of Mrs. John Wintersteen, 1966, no. 28, illustrated
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, We Make Any Size of Mirror, 2006, n.n., n.p., illustrated in color in a photograph of the exhibition 
Paris, Musée Picasso and London, Tate Modern, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame Tragedy, 2017-18, no. 74 (Paris); n.n., p. 134, illustrated (London)
New York, Gagosian, Picasso’s Women: Fernande to Jacqueline, 2019, n.n., p. 75, illustrated in color; pp. 76-77, detail illustrated in color