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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 10, 2019 | Bonhams | London | Impressionist and Modern Art | 2 | $****** - ****** | Tête de picador au nez cassé |
sculpture
18.5 cm (7.28 in)
bronze with dark brown patina
stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' and numbered '3/6' (verso)
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Marlborough Gallery, New York.
Caral Gimbel Lebworth Collection (acquired from the above); her sale, Christie's, New York, 7 May 2009, lot 313.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
R. Penrose, The Sculpture of Picasso, exh. cat., New York, 1967 (another cast illustrated p. 51).
W. Spies, Picasso Sculpture, London, 1972 (another cast illustrated p. 30).
A. E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, London, 1974 (another cast illustrated).
R. Johnson, The Early Sculpture of Picasso 1901 - 1914, New York & London, 1976 (another cast illustrated pp. 191-192).
W. Spies, Picasso, das plastische Werk, Stuttgart, 1983 (another cast illustrated pp. 19 & 326).
J. Pilau i Fabre, Picasso, Life and Work of the Early Years, 1881 - 1907, Oxford, 1985 (another cast illustrated p. 361).
W. Spies, Picasso, Sculpteur, exh. cat, Paris, 2000 (plaster version illustrated p. 25 & another cast illustrated p. 346).
W. Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000 (plaster version illustrated p. 25 & another cast illustrated p. 346).
A. Temkin & A. Umland, Picasso, Sculpture, exh. cat., New York, 2015 (another cast illustrated p. 45).
C. Bernardi, S. Molins & L. Le Bon, Picasso, bleu et rose, exh. cat., Vanves, 2018 (another cast illustrated p. 198).
stamped with the foundry mark 'C. VALSUANI CIRE PERDUE' and numbered '3/6' (verso)
bronze with dark brown patina
18.5cm (7 5/16in) high.
Conceived in Barcelona in 1903, this bronze version cast in 1960 by the Valsuani Foundry in an edition of 8 numbered 00 to 6/6 plus one unnumbered cast.
