Modern Evening Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Pablo Picasso

Tête de femme

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Auction Closed

May 20, 12:34 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collector

Pablo Picasso

(1881 - 1973)

Tête de femme

signed Picasso (upper left); dated Paris 27.10.54. (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

25 ¾ by 21 ⅜ in.

65.3 by 54.3 cm.

Executed in Paris on 27 October 1954.

Please note that following the auction this work will be presented to the Comité Picasso in mid-June in Paris. This lot will be invoiced for payment and available for collection upon its return to New York after the viewing.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris

Saidenberg Gallery, New York

Marlborough Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in January 1974 and until 1975)

Private Collection

Christie’s, 13 May 1999, lot 487 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Homage to Picasso for His 90th Birthday, 1971, no. 70, p. 80, illustrated

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