Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
La Minotauromachie
Auction Closed
May 14, 01:12 AM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
La Minotauromachie
etching with scraper and engraving on Montval laid paper
plate: 49.5 by 69.2 cm. 19½ by 27¼ in.
sheet: 56.7 by 77.8 cm. 22⅜ by 30½ in.
Executed in 1935, a richly inked impression of the seventh (final) state, with strong contrast and fine detail, printed by Roger Lacourière, Paris.
Estate of the artist
Christie's, London, 28 November 1995, lot 654 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)
Sotheby's, London, 23 June 2014, lot 25 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Christian Zervos, ed., "Picasso 1930-1935," Cahiers d’art, 1936, p. 85, another impression illustrated
Paul Eluard, À Pablo Picasso, Geneva and Paris, 1944, pl. 102, another impression illustrated
Wilhelm Boeck and Jaime Sabartés, Picasso, London, 1952, p. 401, another impression illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sixty Years of Graphic Works, 1966, no. 181, p. 76, another impression illustrated
Georges Bloch, Pablo Picasso, catalogue de l’œuvre gravé et lithographié, 1904-1967, vol. I, Bern, 1968, no. 288, pp. 86 and 87, another impression illustrated
André Fermigier, Picasso, 1969, no. 161, p. 243, another impression illustrated
Francis Ponge, Pierre Descargues and Edward Quinn, Picasso, Paris, 1974, p. 212, another impression illustrated
Timothy Hilton, Picasso, London, 1975, no. 166, p. 225, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur, vol. III, Bern, 1986, no. 573, frontispiece and p. 24, another impression illustrated
Sebastian Goeppert and Herma C. Goeppert-Frank, Minotauromachy by Pablo Picasso, Geneva, 1987, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso peintre-graveur, addendum au catalogue raisonné, Bern, 1996, no. 573, p. 28, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Baer, Picasso The Engraver, New York, 1997, no. 68, p. 83, another impression illustrated
Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 711, p. 292, another impression illustrated
Kathleen Brunner, Picasso Rewriting Picasso, London, 2004, pp. 8 and 20-21, another impression illustrated
Exh. Cat., Malaga, Museo Picasso, Picasso. Toros, 2005, p. 84, another impression illustrated
Stephen Coppel, Picasso Prints—The Vollard Suite, London, 2012, p. 37, another impression illustrated
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