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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 1
09.11.2022 19:00UTC -05:00
Classic
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$ 3 420 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 838942
Lot 1 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Estimate value
$ 600 000 – 800 000
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Quatre baigneuses

signed and dated ‘Picasso 21’ (lower right)

oil on panel

4 x 6 in. (10 x 15.1 cm.)

Painted in 1921





Provenance

John Quinn, New York (by July 1922).

Paul Rosenberg, New York (1926, then by descent); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 3 July 1979, lot 23.

Heinz Berggruen, Paris.

Mike Nichols, New York (acquired from the above).

Acquired by the late owner, 1998.



Literature

M. Raynal, Picasso, Munich, 1921 (illustrated, pl. 61; dated 1922 and with incorrect medium).

A.H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art, New York, 1946, p. 117 (illustrated; titled Four Classic Figures).

M. Gieure, Initiation à l'oeuvre de Picasso, Paris, 1951, pp. 71 and 333 (illustrated, fig. 48).

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1951, vol. 4, no. 278 (illustrated, pl. 98; with incorrect medium).

F. Elgar and R. Maillard, Picasso, Paris, 1955 (illustrated).

B.L. Reid, The Man from New York: John Quinn and his Friends, New York, 1968, pp. 551-552 and 683, note 61 (titled Four Classic Figures).

J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to the Drama, 1917-1926, Cologne, 1999, p. 510, no. 1017 (illustrated, p. 269; titled Four Naked Bathers and with incorrect medium).

U. Weisner, ed., Picassos Klassizismus: Werke 1914-1934, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 1988, p. 323, no. 43a (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; The City Art Museum of Saint Louis; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Cincinnati Museum of Art; Cleveland Museum of Art; New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute; Utica, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute; Durham, Duke University; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Art Gallery; Milwaukee Art Institute; Grand Rapids Art Gallery; Hanover, Dartmouth College; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College; Wellesley College; Virginia, Sweet Briar College; Williamstown, Williams College; Bloomington, Indiana University Art Center Gallery; Alton, Monticello College and Maine, Portland Art Museum, Picasso: Forty Years of his Art, November 1939-April 1943, p. 103, no. 153 (illustrated; titled Four Classic Figures).

New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition, May-December 1957, p. 55 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).

New York, Duveen Brothers, Inc., Picasso: An American Tribute, April-May 1962, no. 14 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).

Seattle, Experience Music Project, DoubleTake: From Monet to Lichtenstein, April 2006-January 2007, p. 19 (illustrated in color; with incorrect medium).



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Artist:Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Applied technique:Painted, Tempera
Art style:Modern art, Classicism
Genre:Marine art
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
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