PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 430
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ID 717950
Lot 430 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Mendiant à la béquille

signed ‘Picasso’ (lower right)

pen and ink and wash on paper

14 1⁄8 x 9 3⁄4 in. (36.5 x 26.4 cm.)

Executed in 1904







Provenance

Paul Huldschinsky, Berlin.

Aniela (Lella) Henriette Huldschinsky (née Fürstenberg), Amsterdam, from the above by 1928, probably until at least 1949.

Kurt Stern, New York, by whom probably acquired from the above.

Wildenstein & Co., Ltd, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1950.

Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd., London, by whom acquired from the above in 1953.

Private collection, Gstaad, by whom acquired from the above in 1953, and thence by descent to the present owner.





Literature

M. Raynal, Picasso, Munich, 1922, (illustrated fig. V).

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. I, Œuvres de 1895 à 1906, Paris, 1949, no. 223 (illustrated pl. 99).

A. Cirici-Pellicer, Picasso avant Picasso, Geneva, 1950, p. 191 (illustrated).

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 6, Supplément aux volumes 1 à 5, Paris, 1954, no. 411 (illustrated pl. 51; titled ‘Dessin à la plume’; dated ‘1902 or 1903’).

L.G. Buchheim, Picasso, Eine Bildbiographie, Munich, 1958, p. 38 (illustrated).

J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso, Life and Work of the Early Years 1881-1907, Cologne, 1981, no. 950, p. 543 (illustrated p. 364).

J. Richardson, A Life of Picasso, vol. I, The Prodigy, 1881-1906, London, 1991, p. 299 (illustrated).

D. Bonnaffoux, ‘Paris vu par les peintres espagnols au tournant des XIXe-XXe siècles’, in Cahiers d’études romanes, no. 6, Paris, 2001, p. 39.

L. Belloli, ‘Lost Paintings beneath Picasso’s “La Coiffure”’, in Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 40, Essays in Memory of John M. Brealey, New York, 2005, pp. 155-156 & 160 (illustrated fig. 8, p. 156).

Exh. cat., Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, p. 91 (illustrated fig 30.8, p. 91).





Exhibited

(Possibly) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1945-1949 (on long-term loan).

London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., The Art of Drawing, 1500-1950, May – July 1953, no. 132, p. 12 (illustrated; titled ‘The Beggar’).





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