PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 51
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Lot 51 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Nature morte à la bougie

signed 'Picasso' (lower left) and dated '4 avl 44' (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

24 5⁄8 x 36 1⁄8 in. (63.2 x 91.7 cm.)

Painted on 4 April 1944





Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], Paris.

Bignou Gallery, New York, by 1948.

Ambassador Hugo Gouthier de Oliveira Gondim, Brazil, by 1956.

Private collection, Sweden.

Private collection, Europe, acquired from the above in the early 1990s, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's London, 22 June 2010, lot 44.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, oeuvres de 1943 et 1944, vol. 13, Paris, 1962, no. 254 (illustrated pl. 126).

M. Vescovo & B. Hedel-Samson ed., Fernand Léger: L'oggetto e il suo contesto, 1920-1940, exh cat., Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, 1996, no. 55, pp. 145 & 156 - 157 (illustrated p. 145).



Exhibited

New York, Bignou Gallery, 19 and 20th Century French Paintings, March 1948.
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