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Property from an Important Private Collection, New York

Pablo Picasso

Homme et femme nus

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May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from an Important Private Collection, New York

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Homme et femme nus

signed Picasso and dated 18.12.53. (upper right)

pen and ink on paper

13 ¾ by 10 ¼ in. 

34.9 by 26 cm. 

Executed 18 December 1953. 

Karl & Faber, Munich, 17 May 1966

Lester Sobin, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 

Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 1987, lot 240 (consigned by the above)

Saidenberg Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Michel Leiris, “Picasso: Les 180 Dessins. Picasso et la comédie humaine,” Verve, vol. VIII, Paris, September 1954, nos. 29-30, n.p, illustrated 

Michel Anthonioz, The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature (1937-1960), New York and Paris, 1988, nos. 29-30, illustrated

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1946 à 1953, vol. XVI, Paris, 1965, no. 64, pl. 23, illustrated (titled Homme et femmes nus)