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

Pablo Picasso

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November 19, 12:00 AM GMT

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2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

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

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)

Nu


signed Picasso and dated 3.5.72. (lower right); dated I., II., III.5.72. (upper right)

gouache, watercolor, brush and ink, chalk and colored pencil on paper

29 ½ by 21 ¾ in.

75 by 55.4 cm.

Executed between 1 and 3 May 1972.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago

Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht (acquired from the above by 1988)

Christie's, New York, 3 May 2006, lot 154 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso, 172 Dessins en noir et en couleurs, 21 Novembre 1971—18 Aout 1972, 1972-73, no. 58, p. 43, illustrated in color (with inverted dimensions)

Paris, Centre Pompidou and London, Tate Gallery, Le Dernier Picasso 1953-1973, 1988, no. 122, p. 330, illustrated in color (Paris); no. 99, p. 258, illustrated in color (London)

Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Picasso, 1960-1973, 1988-89, no. 76, p. 66 Bielefeld, Kunsthalle, Picasso, Letzte Bilder, Werke 1966-1972, 1993-94, no. 54

Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, 2003-04, no. 118, p. 142; p. 144, illustrated in color

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1971-1972, vol. XXXIII, Paris, 1978, no. 375, pl. 132, illustrated

Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 1178, p. 476, illustrated in color; p. 528