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Property from a Prestigious Private Collection

Pablo Picasso

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