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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 106
10.11.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 839043
Lot 106 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Estimate value
$ 1 200 000 – 1 800 000
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

La belle et la Bête

signed, dated and inscribed ‘Picasso Cannes 27 Juillet XXXIII-’ (lower left)

gouache, watercolor and pen and brush and India ink on paper

15 7/8 x 20 in. (40.2 x 50.8 cm.)

Executed in Cannes on 27 July 1933





Provenance

Zwemmer Gallery, London (acquired from the artist).

Mrs. M.J.A. Russell.

Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York.

Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zürich.

Dr. Robert C. and Connie Nowinski, Seattle (by 1992).

Ronnie Meyerson, Inc., New York.

Acquired by the late owner, 1998.



Exhibited

London, Zwemmer Gallery, Picasso, May-June 1936, no. 7 (dated 26 July 1933).

New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, April-May 1985, pp. 1 and 28, no. 12 (illustrated in color, p. 29; illustrated in color again on the cover).

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art and Princeton University Art Museum, 20th Century Master Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: From the Nowinski Collection, May 1992-April 1993 (dated 26 July 1933).

Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, Modern Masters and the Figure, 1993.



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