ID 792356 
Lot 44  | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Estimate value
£ 1 500 000 – 2 500 000 
Femme s'essuyant les pieds (Françoise)
signed and dated 'Picasso 30.3.53.' (upper left); dated again '30.3.53.' (on the reverse)
oil and sgraffito on canvas
18 1⁄8 x 13 in. (46 x 33 cm.)
Painted in Vallauris on 30 March 1953
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (no. 05074).
Morton G. Neumann, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above, and thence by descent; their sale, Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1998, lot 116.
Private Collection, New York, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, by whom acquired from the above.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in May 2011.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 15, Oeuvres de 1946 à 1953, Paris, 1965, no. 255, n.p. (illustrated pl. 144).
Special Notice
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| Artist: | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted | 
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Genre: | Nude art, Portrait | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
| Artist: | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | 
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted | 
| Medium: | Canvas, Textile | 
| Art style: | Modern art | 
| Genre: | Nude art, Portrait | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Paintings | 
| Address of auction | 
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