PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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ID 1422972
Lot 59 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
Vue de Notre-Dame de Paris
signed 'Picasso' (lower left); dated and inscribed '1er mars 45 K' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
21 ½ x 32 in. (54.6 x 81.3 cm.)
Painted in Paris on 1 March 1945
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris.
Perls Galleries, New York.
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (acquired from the above, 9 April 1957).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
H. and S. Janis, Picasso: The Recent Years, 1939-1946, New York, 1946, pp. xii, 32 and pl. 44 (illustrated, pl. 115).
W. Boeck and J. Sabartés, Picasso, New York, 1955, p. 497, no. 398 (illustrated, p. 415).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1963, vol. 14, no. 105 (illustrated, pl. 49).
L. Ullmann, Picasso und der Krieg, Bonn, 1993, p. 257, no. 241 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Recent Acquisitions, February-March 1957.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, May 1957-February 1958, p. 93 (illustrated).
Providence, Brown University, Annmary Brown Memorial and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 124 (illustrated in color).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, September 1996-December 1997, p. 192 (illustrated in color, p. 195, pl. 69).
| Artist: | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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