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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 5, 2015 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 26 | $****** - ****** | La Gommeuse |
paintings
54 x 81.3 cm (21.26 x 32.01 in)
oil on canvas
Signed Picasso (upper left); inscribed Recuerdo a Ma�ach en el d�a de su santo and fully painted on the reverse
Ambroise Vollard, Paris Demotte Gallery, New York (1931) Josef von Sternberg, Hollywood (acquired from the above before 1935 and sold: Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, November 22, 1949, lot 89) Perls Gallery, New York (acquired at the above sale) Jacques Sarlie, New York (sold: SothebyâÂÂs, London, October 12, 1960, lot 5) Galerie Alex Maguy, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Private Collection (sale: SothebyâÂÂs, London, December 4, 1984, lot 23 ). Acquired at the above sale
New York, Demotte Gallery, Picasso, 1931 (as dating from 1902) Los Angeles County Museum, 1935 Los Angeles County Museum, The Collection of Josef von Sternberg, 1943, no. 40, illustrated in the catalogue The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of paintings and drawings from the Josef von Sternberg Collection, 1946, no. 19 (dated circa 1905) West Palm Beach, The Norton Museum of Art, Picasso: A Vision, 1994 Wichita, Kansas, Wichita Art Museum, A Personal Gathering: Paintings and Sculpture from the Collection of William I. Koch, 1996 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch, 2005 (titled The Night Club Singer)
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1895 à1906, Paris, 1957, vol. I, no. 104, illustrated pl. 52 (titled Nu) Fred A. van Braam (ed.), World Collectors Annuary, Delft, 1960, vol. XII, no. 4187 Pierre Daix & Georges Boudaille, Picasso 1900-1906, Catalogue Raisonné de lâÂÂoeuvre peint, Paris, 1966, no. VI. 18, illustrated p. 198 Alberto Moravia & Paolo Lecaldano, Picasso blu e rosa, Milan, 1968, no. 7, illustrated p. 88 (titled Nudo stanco) Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso. The Early Years 1881-1907, New York, 1981, no. 661, illustrated p. 263 (titled Nudity) Pierre Daix, Picasso. Life and Art, New York, 1993, mentioned p. 30 Pierre Daix, Dictionnaire Picasso, Paris, 1995, mentioned p. 402 Michelle Falkenstein, âÂÂPicassoâÂÂs Double Vision,â in Art News, New York, January 1, 2005 The Picasso Project, ed., PicassoâÂÂs Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Turn of the Century, 1900-1901, San Francisco, 2010, no. 1901-410, illustrated p. 233 Becoming Picasso. Paris 1901 (exhibition catalogue), The Courtauld Gallery, London, 2013, illustrated in color p. 49
