Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction, including the Ralph I. Goldenberg Collection

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Property from a Distinguished Italian Collection

Pablo Picasso

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Auction Closed

June 25, 06:56 PM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 5,000,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


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signed Picasso (lower left); dated 23.4.60. (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

100 by 81 cm. 39⅜ by 31⅞ in.

Executed on 23 April 1960.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired from the above in 1968)

Private Collection, Milan (acquired from the above through Galleria Levi, Milan in 1973)

Thence by descent to the present owners

David Douglas Duncan, Picasso’s Picassos: The Treasures of La Californie, London, 1961, p. 261, illustrated

Hélène Parmelin, Picasso: Les dames de Mougins, Paris, 1964, p. 106, illustrated in colour

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Œuvres de 1959 à 1961, vol. 19, Paris, 1968, no. 303, pl. 95, illustrated

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Spanish Artists. Gris, Picasso, Miró, Chillida, Tàpies, 1969, no. 47, illustrated in colour (titled Femme nue assise dans un fauteuil)

Milan, Galleria Levi, Picasso. Olii, gouaches, pastelli, chine, disegni dal 1921 al 1971, 1973, no. 19, illustrated in colour (titled Femme nue assise dans un fauteuil)