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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 12, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale Including Property from the Collection of Herbert and Adele Klapper | 51A | $****** - ****** | Le Fou |
sculpture
41.3 cm (16.25 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
signed 'PICASSO' (on the back)
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Madame Claude Descamps (née Jenny Béghin), Paris; sale, Piasa, Paris, 12 December 1997, lot N.
Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1932, vol. 1, no. 322 (another cast illustrated, pl. 148).
J. Cassou, Picasso, New York, 1940, p. 158 (another illustrated).
U.E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollard Editeur, New York, 1944, p. 114, no. 124.
A.H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art, New York, 1946, pp. 38 and 277, no. 206 (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 (another cast illustrated, pl. IV ).
W. Boeck and J. Sabartés, Picasso, New York, 1955, p. 460, no. 32 (another cast illustrated).
R. Penrose, Picasso, Amsterdam, 1961, no. 2 (another cast illustrated; titled Tête de bouffon).
R. Penrose, Picasso Sculpture, New York, 1965 (another cast illustrated, pl. 2).
M. de Micheli, Picasso, New York, 1967, p. 33 (another cast illustrated, p. 9).
R. Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, 1967, pp. 17, 26, 41 and 221, no. 5 (another cast illustrated, p. 52).
J. Leymarie, Picasso: The Artist of the Century, Geneva, 1971, pp. 26 and 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, pp. 17-18, no. 4 (another cast illustrated).
F. Elgar and R. Maillard, Picasso, New York, 1972, p. 35, no. 26 (another cast illustrated; titled Head of a Jester).
R. Penrose and J. Golding, Picasso in Retrospect, New York, 1973, no. 206 (another cast illustrated).
R. Johnson, The Early Sculpture of Picasso, 1901-1914, New York, 1976, p. 165, no. 6 (other casts illustrated, p. 202).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: The Early Years, 1881-1907, New York, 1981, p. 407, no. 1091 (another cast illustrated).
W. Spies, Picasso, Das plastische Werk, Berlin, 1983, pp. 326 and 372, no. 4 (another cast illustrated).
M.L. Besnard-Bernadac, M. Richet and H. Seckel, The Picasso Museum, Paris: Paintings, Papiers collés, Picture reliefs, Sculptures, and Ceramics, New York, 1985, p. 150, no. 272 (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, New York, 1991, vol. I, p. 348 (another cast illustrated).
B. Leal, C. Piot and M.-L. Bernadac, The Ultimate Picasso, New York, 2000, pp. 85 and 505, no. 175 (another cast illustrated, p. 84).
W. Spies and C. Piot, Picasso: Sculpteur, Paris, 2000, p. 394, no. 4 (other casts illustrated, pp. 27 and 346).
D. Widmayer-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, pp. 182-188 and 392, no. 161 (another cast illustrated in color, p. 183, fig. 194; another cast illustrated, p. 392).
Picasso: Sculpture, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015, pp. 39-41, no. 3 (other casts illustrated in color, pp. 46-47).
signed 'PICASSO' (on the back)
bronze with dark brown patina
Height: 16 ¼ in. (41 cm.)
Conceived in 1905 and cast by 1939
