PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 141
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ID 1306014
Lot 141 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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£ 150 000 – 250 000
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Hibou, Autoportrait
signed and inscribed 'Picasso Pour Duncan' (lower right)
pastel on paper cut out over David Douglas Duncan's gelatin print Pablo Picasso's Eyes
21 x 14 ½ in. (53.4 x 37 cm.)
Executed in Cannes in late Summer 1957




Provenance

David Douglas Duncan, France, a gift from the artist.
Peter Coeln, Vienna, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner via the intermediation of Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg in 2011.



Literature

P. Descargues, E. Quinn & J. Russell, Picasso, New York, 1974, p. 14 (first state illustrated).
D. Boone, Picasso, Paris, 1989, pp. 38 & 143 (first state illustrated p. 38; titled 'Picasso and The Owl').
F. Gilot, Matisse et Picasso: Une amitié racontée, Paris, 1991, n.p. (first state illustrated on the back cover; titled 'Hibou' and dated '1959').
B. Friedewald, Picasso's Animals, Munich, 2014, pp. 93 & 140 (illustrated on the cover; titled 'The Great Snow Owl (Photograph of the Eyes by David Douglas Duncan)' and with incorrect dimensions).
R.-M. Gropp, 'Gut gelaunt genießen', in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, no. 271, 20 November 2010, Frankfurt, p. 37 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Vienna, WestLicht, David Douglas Duncan, Picasso, December 2007 - January 2008.



Further Details

The Comité Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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