ID 829362
Lot 35 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000
Le Gamin
signed 'Picasso' (upper right)
pencil on paper
7 3/8 x 4 3/8 in. (18.8 x 11 cm.)
Drawn circa 1905
Provenance
Buchholz Gallery, New York.
Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Provincetown, Massachusetts, by March 1939; sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 July 1959, lot 29.
Arthur Tooth & Sons Ltd., London, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Acquired from the above on 19 November 1959.
Literature
C. Hussey, 'Fyfield Manor, Wiltshire - III. The Home of the Earl and Countess of Avon', in Country Life, no. 3370, London, 5 October 1961, p. 753 (illustrated fig. 6, p. 752).
D. Sutton, 'A Statesman's Collection', in Apollo, June 1969, London, no. 15, p. 466 (illustrated p. 467).
Exhibited
New York, Perls Galleries, Picasso Before 1910, March - April 1939, no. 18.
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Arts, Chrysler Collection Exhibition, January - March 1941, no. 197, p. 113. This exhibition later travelled to Philadelphia, Museum of Fine Art, March - May 1941 (dated '1903-1905').
Birmingham, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Lord Avon, January – March 1966, no. 15.
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
Post lot text
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
| Artist: | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Europe |
| Artist: | Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) |
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| Applied technique: | Pencil |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Europe |
| Address of auction |
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