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Lot 318
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Pablo Picasso

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Pablo Picasso
  • Tête de femme
  • signed Picasso, dedicated Pour Sherban Sidery, inscribed Paris and dated 28.4.45 (along right edge)

  • pen and ink on paper
  • 18.6 by 13.6cm., 7 1/4 by 5 3/8 in.

Provenance

Sherban Sidery (acquired directly from the artist)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (acquired by 1971)
Private Collection, Munich
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso- 90 Zeichnungen, 1971-72, no. 32
Minneapolis, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Picasso, Braque, Leger, 1976

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, œuvres de 1944 à 1946, Paris, 1962, vol. 14, no. 128, illustrated p. 60
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. Liberation and Post-War Years, 1944-1949, San Francisco, 2000, no. 46-053, illustrated p. 31

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, and t-hinged to the mount at the upper two corners. The sheet is slightly light-struck and there are two small areas of staining to the extreme upper edge, relating to a previous mounting. Otherwise, this work is in overall very good condition. Colours: the paper tone is much lighter in the original, compared to the printed catalogue.
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