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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 7, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 14 | $****** - ****** | La Grue |
sculpture
72.4 cm (28.5 in)
painted bronze
Stamped with the foundry mark Valsuani cire perdue and numbered 1
Estate of the artist
Marina Picasso (acquired from the above). Galerie Jan Krugier & Cie, Geneva (on consignment from the above). Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1981). David L. Wolper, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 1982). Pace Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1986). Private Collection, New Albany, Ohio (acquired from the above). Richard Gray Gallery, New York. Private Collection, NY. C&M Fine Arts, NY. Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1994
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Sculpture of Picasso, 1967-68, no. 112, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1952). Paris, Petit Palais, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, 1966-67, no. 304, illustrated in the catalogue. London, Tate Gallery, Picasso. Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Work, 1967, no. 119, illustrated in the catalogue (as dating from 1952). . Munich, Haus der Kunst; Colonge, Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle; Frankfurt/Main, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstintitut; Zürich, Kunsthaus, Pablo Picasso, Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, 1981, no. 252, illustrated in the catalogue. Venice, Palazzo Grassi, Opera dal 1895-1971 dalla Collezione Marina Picasso, 1981, no. 304, illustrated in the catalogue. Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso: 1881-1971, 1981. New York, The Pace Gallery, The Sculpture of Picasso, 1982, no. 31, illustrated in the catalogue. Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art; Kyoto, Municipal Museum, Picasso, Masterpieces from the Marina Picasso Collection and from Museums in U.S.A. and U.S.S.R., 1983, no. 189, illustrated in the catalogue. Berlin, Nationalgalerie; Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, Picasso -- Das Plastische Werk, 1983, no. 46b, illustrated in the catalogue. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Wolper Picassos, 1984-85, no. 10, illustrated in the catalogue
Werner Spies, Pablo Picasso, Das plastische Werk, Stuttgart, 1971, no. 461. Berggruen Collection (exhibition catalogue), Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 1988, no. 101, illustration of another cast p. 243 (as dating from 1952). Picasso: Sculptor/Painter (exhibition catalogue), Tate Gallery, London, 1994, no. 121, illustration of another cast p. 155 (as dating from 1951-52). Brigitte Léal, Christine Piot and Marie-Laure Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, no. 958, illustration of the plaster in color p. 387 (as dating from 1951). The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Fifties I, 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, no. 52-066, illustrated p. 99. Werner Spies, Picasso Sculpteur, Paris, 2000, no. 461 IIb, illustrated p. 376 (bronze casts dating from 1952-54)
