Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
People and Places: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Nu couché
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
People and Places: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Nu couché
signed Picasso and dated 13.7.72. (upper centre)
pencil on paper
12.8 by 20.3 cm. 5 by 8 in.
Framed: 26.2 by 34 cm. 10 ¼ by 13 ⅜ in.
Executed on 13 July 1972.
Estate of the artist
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Galerie 27, Paris
Lionel Prejger, Paris
Private Collection (acquired from the above in February 1986)
Sotheby's, Paris, 30 May 2012, lot 46
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1971-1972, vol. XXXIII, Paris, 1978, no. 458, pl. 160, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso: 172 dessins en noir et en couleurs, 1971-72, no. 123, p. 87, illustrated in colour