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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2020 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 16 | $****** - ****** | Tête de fou |
sculpture
40.3 cm (15.88 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed 'PICASSO' (on the back of the base)
Galerie Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Lucien Vollard, Paris, by whom acquired from the above.
Private collection, Switzerland, by whom acquired from the above in 1948.
Anonymous sale, Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 23 June 2000, lot 115.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above by the late owner in 2007.
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 1, Paris, 1932, no. 322, n.p. (another cast illustrated pl. 148).
J. Cassou, Picasso, New York, 1940, p. 158 (another cast illustrated).
U.E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard Editeur, New York, 1944, no. 124, p. 114.
A.H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art, New York, 1946, no. 206, pp. 38 & 277 (another cast illustrated; titled 'Harlequin').
D.-H. Kahnweiler, The Sculptures of Picasso, London, 1949, no. 2 (another cast illustrated).
G.C. Argan, Scultura di Picasso, Venice, 1953, pl. IV (another cast illustrated).
W. Boeck & J. Sabartés, Picasso, New York, 1955, no. 32, p. 460 (another cast illustrated).
R. Penrose, Picasso, Amsterdam, 1961, no. 2 (another cast illustrated; titled 'Tête de bouffon').
R. Penrose, Picasso Sculpture, New York, 1965, pl. 2 (another cast illustrated).
M. de Micheli, Picasso, New York, 1967, p. 33 (another cast illustrated p. 9).
R. Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, 1967, no. 5, pp. 17, 26, 41 & 221 (another cast illustrated p. 52).
J. Leymarie, Picasso: The Artist of the Century, Geneva, 1971, pp. 26 & 292 (another cast illustrated p. 26; titled 'Head of a Jester').
W. Spies, Sculpture by Picasso, with a Catalogue of the Works, New York, 1971, no. 4, pp. 17-18 (another cast illustrated).
F. Elgar & R. Maillard, Picasso, New York, 1972, no. 26, p. 35 (another cast illustrated; titled 'Head of a Jester').
R. Penrose & J. Golding, eds., Picasso in Retrospect, New York, 1973, no. 206, n.p. (another cast illustrated; titled 'Harlequin (Jester)').
R. Johnson, The Early Sculpture of Picasso, 1901-1914, New York, 1976, no. 6, p. 165 (other casts illustrated p. 202).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907, New York, 1981, no. 1091, p. 407 (another cast illustrated).
W. Spies, Picasso, Das plastische Werk, Berlin, 1983, no. 4, pp. 326 & 372 (another cast illustrated).
M.L. Besnard-Bernadac, M. Richet & H. Seckel, The Picasso Museum, Paris: Paintings, Papiers collés, Picture reliefs, Sculptures, and Ceramics, New York, 1985, no. 272, p. 150 (another cast illustrated).
P. Lecaldano, Picasso: Blue and Rose Periods, New York, 1987, no. 175 A (another cast illustrated).
J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1906, vol. I, New York, 1991, p. 348 (another cast illustrated).
B. Leal, C. Piot & M.-L. Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 175, pp. 85 & 505 (another cast illustrated p. 84).
W. Spies & C. Piot, Picasso: Sculpteur, Paris, 2000, no. 4, p. 394 (other casts illustrated pp. 27 & 346).
D. Widmaier-Picasso, 'Vollard and the Sculptures of Picasso', in Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006, no. 161, pp. 182-188 & 392 (another cast illustrated fig. 194, p. 183; another cast illustrated p. 392).
A. Temkin, A. Umland & V. Perdrisot, eds., Picasso: Sculpture, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015, no. 3, pp. 39-41 (other casts illustrated pp. 46-47).
signed 'PICASSO' (on the back of the base)
