PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 39
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Lot 39 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
La colline de la Californie
signed ‘Picasso’ (upper left); dated ‘20.2.59’ (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
38 x 51 1/8 in. (96.5 x 129.5 cm.)
Painted in Cannes on 20 February 1959




Provenance

Eleanore & Daniel Saidenberg [Saidenberg Gallery], New York, by 1964.
Galleria d’Arte Medea, Cortina d’Ampezzo, circa 1970.
Acquired by the family of the present owner by circa 1990, and thence by descent.



Literature

P. Daix, Picasso, New York, 1965, p. 268 (illustrated p. 223).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 18, Oeuvres de 1958 à 1959, Paris, 1967, no. 331 (illustrated pl. 98).
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