Masterpieces from the Lewis Collection
Pablo Picasso
Buste de femme
Auction Closed
June 24, 07:09 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000,000 - 18,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Buste de femme
signed indistinctly Picasso (lower right) and dated 10.5.38 (centre right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
78.7 by 60.5 cm. 31 by 23⅞ in.
Executed on 10 May 1938.
Vladimir Golschmann, St. Louis (acquired by 1958 and until at least 1971)
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 1996
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Vladimir Golschmann Collection. Modern Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Ancient Bronzes, African Sculptures. A Loan Exhibition, 1958, no. 15 (titled Portrait of Dora Maar)
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Homage to Picasso for his 90th Birthday, New York, 1971, no. 52, illustrated (titled Head of a Woman (Dora Maar), dated 5 May 1938 and catalogued as oil and gouache on canvas)
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan 2014-16)
Houston Museum of Fine Arts (on extended loan 2020-26)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso: Œuvres 1937 à 1939, vol. 9, Paris, 1958, no. 121, pl. 59, illustrated (dated 5 May 1938 and catalogued as oil on canvas)