Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Property from a Canadian Family Collection
Tête de femme
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500,000 - 4,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1972
Tête de femme
numbered 1/6 (on the base)
bronze
height: 54. 1 cm. 21 ¼ in.
Conceived in Vallauris in 1951 and cast in bronze by the Godard Foundry, Paris. This work is number 1 from an edition of 6 examples plus 1 artist's proof.
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Private Collection, Canada (acquired circa the 1960s)
Thence by descent to the present owners
Jaime Sabartés and Wilhelm Boeck, Picasso, New York and Amsterdam, 1955, no. 237, p. 480, another cast illustrated
Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso, New York, 1964, pp. 320-21
Exh. Cat., Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Picasso: Drawings, Watercolors, Gouaches, 1967
Werner Spies, Picasso Sculpture, London, 1971, no. 411, p. 213, another cast illustrated
William Rubin, Picasso in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1972, p. 175, another cast illustrated
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Pablo Picasso - Das plastische Werk, 1983, no. 411 II, p. 352, another cast illustrated
Hans L. C. Jaffé, Picasso, New York, 1996, no. 57, p. 40, another cast illustrated
Werner Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Ostfildern and Stuttgart, 2000, no. 411 II, p. 373, illustration of another cast
Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso, 2007, p. 229, the plaster illustrated in a photograph of the artist
Exh. Cat., London, Gagosian Gallery, Picasso: The Mediterranean Years 1945-1962, 2010, p. 80, another cast illustrated in a photograph of the artist's home