拍品 314
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PABLO PICASSO | Femme assise

估價
500,000 - 700,000 USD
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描述

  • 巴布羅·畢加索
  • Femme assise
  • Signed Picasso and dated 26 (upper right)
  • Brush and ink and pen and ink on paper
  • 18 3/8 by 12 1/2 in.
  • 47.3 by 31.8 cm
  • Executed in 1926.

來源

Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Paris (acquired by 1929)
Justin K. Thannhauser, Lucerne & New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York (a gift from the above in 1963 and sold: Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, May 22, 1981, lot 847)
Harvey Lubitz, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Elca, London (acquired from the above and sold: Sotheby's, London, March 26, 1986, lot 363)
Nissenbaum Collection (acquired at the above sale)
Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Paris
Private Collection, South America & Miami
Acquired from the above by the present owner on July 20, 2018

展覽

Zurich, Kunsthaus, Picasso, 1932, no. 338
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Guggenheim Museum, Justin K. Thannhauser Collection, 1978, no. 56, illustrated in the catalogue

出版

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1926 à 1932, vol. VII, Paris, 1955, no. 24, illustrated pl. 12
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ed., A Picture Book Published on the Occasion of the First Show of 19th and 20th Century Masterpieces Arranged by Courtesy of the Thannahauser Foundation, 1965, illustrated p. 60
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ed., A Picture Book of the First Show of 19th and 20th Century Masterpieces Arranged by Courtesy of the Thannahauser Collection, 1965, illustrated p. 159

Condition

Executed on cream laid paper. The sheet is hinged to a mount on all four corners of the verso. The paper undulates slightly. There are minor spots of foxing scattered throughout. All four edges of the sheet are slightly stained from a previous acidic mounting. The work is in good condition.
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拍品資料及來源

After a period of concentration on the figure, described as Picasso’s embrace of neoclassicism, his stylistic investigations moved to a new interpretation of the principles of synthetic Cubism in the mid-1920s (see fig. 1). During this time, Picasso distanced himself from the dealer Paul Rosenberg who had supported his post-war career and began to show interest in the growing Surrealist movement and the ideas of André Breton. One direction in which Surrealism led Picasso was the transformation of the figure into a collection of shapes and signs, and in Femme assise he transforms the placid space of neoclassicism into a visual dance of planes and facets. The entire composition is determined by the overlapping of curving shapes and rhythmic lines that define the figure in space. The present work was once in the collection of Justin K. Thannhauser, who was known for handling the finest masterpieces by Picasso, and was one of the 30 works by the artist he would donate to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963. Justin K. Thannhauser was the son of art dealer Heinrich Tannhauser who founded the Moderne Galerie in Munich which became famous for an impressive and versatile exhibition program that featured French Impressionists, Italian Futurists and contemporary German artists. It was the site of the first major Picasso retrospective in Germany in 1913, thus commencing a close relationship between the artist and the dealer family.