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People and Places: Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Pablo Picasso

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