Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
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.
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
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