Sold to Benefit Dickinson College’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Pablo Picasso
Visage et soleil
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold to Benefit Dickinson College’s Center for the Futures of Native Peoples
Pablo Picasso
1881 - 1973
Visage et soleil
dated 16.8.57. (along the lower edge); stamped Madoura Plein Feu (on the underside)
painted and partially glazed terracotta
diameter: 12 ¼ in. 31.1 cm.
Executed on 16 August 1957; this work is unique.
The Comité Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Estate of the artist
Jacqueline Picasso, Mougins (acquired by descent from the above)
Galerie Étienne Sassi, Paris
Hammer Galleries, New York
Acquired from the above in April 1999 by the present owner
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Crosscurrents: Modern Art from the Samuel Rose and Julie Walters Collection, 2015-16, p. 125, illustrated in color
