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Property of an Important New York Collection

Pablo Picasso

Tête classique

Auction Closed

May 14, 01:12 AM GMT

Estimate

3,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of an Important New York Collection

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)


Tête classique

signed Picasso (lower right)

charcoal and chalk on paper mounted on board

25 by 18 ¾ in.

63.5 by 45.7 cm.

Executed circa 1921.

Please note that after the auction this work will be presented at the Comité Picasso meeting in Paris in late May 2025.  This lot will be invoiced for payment and available for collection upon its return to New York after the meeting.

Paul Rosenberg, Paris 

Galerie Pierre (Pierre Loeb), Paris

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above on 28 September 1949)

Acquired as a gift from the above by the present owner

Oslo, Kunstneres Hus; Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst and Stockholm, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Laurens, 1938, no. 36 (titled Hode and dated 1921)