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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Tête de femme

Price realised USD 3,749,000
Estimate
USD 3,000,000 – USD 4,000,000
Closed: 12 Nov 2015
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Tête de femme

Price realised USD 3,749,000
Closed: 12 Nov 2015
Price realised USD 3,749,000
Closed: 12 Nov 2015
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Tête de femme
signed 'Picasso' (lower left) and dated '3.3.40.' (center right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
25 3/8 x 18 in. (64.5 x 45.7 cm.)
Painted in Royan, 3 March 1940
Provenance
Galerie Pierre (Pierre Loeb), Paris and Havana (by 1942).
Nina and Gordon Bunshaft, New York.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (gift from the above, 4 December 1957, and until 1968).
Patricia Withofs, London.
Viktor and Marianne Langen, Meerbusch, Germany.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, August 1988.
Literature
A.T. Quílez, ed., "La exposición Picasso" in Carteles, 21 June 1942, vol. 23, no. 25, p. 70 (illustrated prior to signature).
A.H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York, 1946, p. 224 (illustrated prior to signature).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1959, vol. 10, no. 374 (illustrated prior to signature, pl. 122; with incorrect support).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Europe at War, 1939-1940, San Francisco, 1998, p. 140, no. 40-197 (with Zervos' illustration, prior to signature).
Exhibited
Havana, Lyceum, Picasso: sin tiempo, June-July 1942.
The Art Gallery of Toronto and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso and Man, January-March 1964, p. 129, no. 231 (illustrated prior to signature).
Cologne, Baukunst, Theodor Heuss Ring, Werke der Reife europäischer Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts, October-November 1970, no. A27.
Cologne, Museen der Stadt Köln, Westkunst: zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939, May-August 1981, p. 362, no. 168 (illustrated).
Vienna, Rathaus, Picasso in Wein, November 1981-January 1982, no. 47 (illustrated in color).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso: Der Maler und seine Modelle, July-October 1986, p. 63, no. 29 (illustrated in color).

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