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Pablo Picasso

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250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • LES DÉJEUNERS
  • Signed and dated Picasso 27.6.61 IV (lower right)
  • Colored crayons on paper
  • 10 5/8 by 16 1/2 in.
  • 27 by 42 cm

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Herman C. Goldsmith, New York (1968)
Estate of Elisabeth Hirsch (sold: Christie's, New York, May 13, 1999, lot 335)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Galerie D'eendt n.v., Pablo Picasso: Les Déjeuners, 1965, no. 6

Literature

Douglas Cooper, Les Déjeuners, Paris, 1962, illustrated pl. 127
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1961 à 1962, vol. 20, Paris, 1968, no. 105, illustrated p. 54
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, no. 61-170, illustrated p. 163

Catalogue Note

From 1959-1962, Picasso created over one hundred seventy-five paintings and drawings inspired by Manet's masterpiece Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863 (fig. 1). According to Susan Galassi, "...for Picasso, as for Manet, the Déjeuner offered the opportunity to reassess the central theme of the nude and invest it with new life. Over the course of his transformations, he strips away Manet's overlay of realism, and takes the female figure back to something more timeless, enduring and primordial'' (Picasso's Variations on the Masters, New York, 1996, p. 200).  Unlike many of his contemporaries who focused solely on abstraction, the present work illustrates Picasso's ceaseless interest in the human figure and the déjeuner theme.

Fig. 1  Edouard Manet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863, Musée d'Orsay, Paris