Modern Evening Auction

Modern Evening Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 124. Fruits, journal, verre, pipe.

Property from a Private Collection, California

Pablo Picasso

Fruits, journal, verre, pipe

Live auction begins on:

November 19, 12:00 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)


Fruits, journal, verre, pipe

signed Picasso (upper right)

oil on cradled panel

15 ½ by 19 ½ in.

39.4 by 49.4 cm. 

Executed in Montrouge in late 1917.

Galerie Pierre (Pierre Loeb), Paris 

James Johnson Sweeney, New York 

Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above on 13 May 1943)

André de Limúr and Ethel Crocker, Washington, D.C. (acquired from the above on 26 May 1943)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1917 à 1919, vol. III, Paris, 1949, no. 118, pl. 40, illustrated

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to the Drama (1917-1926), Barcelona, 1999, no. 196, p. 81; p. 493, illustrated (titled Still Life Concealing a Newspaper)