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Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

Pablo Picasso

Buste de femme

Live auction begins on:

May 19, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

Pablo Picasso 

(1881 - 1973)


Buste de femme

signed Picasso (center left); dated 10.7.55. and numbered II (on the reverse)

oil and Ripolin on canvas

36 ¼ by 28 ⅞ in.

92.1 by 73.1 cm. 

Executed on 10 July 1955. 

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Justin K. Thannhauser, New York (acquired by 1962)

Private Collection, New York 

Acquired from the above circa 1999 by the present owner

Cleveland Museum of Art, 8 Paintings on Summer Loan from J.K. Thannhauser, 1962

Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie and London, Gimpel Fils Gallery, Picasso Bilder der Jahre 1945-1961, 1964, no. 9, n.p., illustrated; illustrated on the inside front cover

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. XVI, Paris, 1965, no. 404, pl. 147, illustrated