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Picasso's Heroic Years: Masterpieces from a Prestigious European Family

Pablo Picasso

Couple

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10,000,000 - 15,000,000 USD

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Picasso's Heroic Years: Masterpieces from a Prestigious European Family

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)

Couple


signed Picasso (upper right); dated 12.1.70. and numbered II (on the reverse)

oil and Ripolin on canvas

51 ⅛ by 38 ¼ in. 

130 by 97 cm.

Executed on 12 January 1970.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Private Collection, United States (acquired by 1982)

Thomas Amman Fine Art, Zurich

Private Collection

Galerie Malingue, Paris

Galerie Interart, Geneva 

Acquired from the above by the present owner in June 2002

Avignon, Palais des Papes, Pablo Picasso, 1969-1970, 1970, no. 153, n.p., illustrated

Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969, New York, 1970, no. 101, n.p., illustrated in color

Rafael Alberti, Picasso en Avignon, Commentaires à une peinture en mouvement, Paris, 1971, no. 101, n.p., illustrated in color; p. 235

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1970, vol. XXXII, Paris, 1977, no. 22, pl. 15, illustrated