Pablo Picasso

Saltimbanque accoudé

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Thomas C. Adler and Family

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973

Saltimbanque accoudé

signed Picasso and dated 22 (lower right); dated 26 Decembre 1922 (on the verso)

watercolor and brush and ink on paper

6 ½ by 4 ⅛ in. 16.5 by 10.5 cm.

Executed on 26 December 1922.

Paul Guillaume, Paris (acquired before 1929)

Jacques Seligmann, New York (acquired from the above)

Thomas C. Adler, Cincinnati (acquired from the above on 9 June 1937)

Thence by descent to the present owner

Waldemar George, La Grande Peinture Contemporaine à la Collection Paul Guiilaume, Paris, 1929, p. 130, illustrated (titled Saltimbanque and with the medium as gouache)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. V, Paris, 1954, no. 11, pl. 5, illustrated (dated winter 1922-23)
Douglas Cooper, Picasso Theater, New York, 1968, no. 305, n.p., illustrated (titled Young Man Seated and dated 1922-23)
Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to the Drama (1917-1926), Barcelona and Cologne, 1999, no. 1301, p. 355, illustrated (titled Seated Harlequin Leaning Back)