PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 30
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Lot 30 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Homme à la moustache

dated '23.12.70.' (on the reverse)

oil on panel

50 3/4 x 25 5/8 in. (129.4 x 65.1 cm.)

Painted on 23 December 1970





Provenance

Estate of the artist.

Maya Widmaier-Picasso, Paris (by descent from the above).

Wildenstein & Co. Ltd., London.

Anon. sale, Maître Marc Arthur Kohn, Geneva, Spring 1989, lot 64.

Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 April 1990, lot 66.

Private collection, Osaka (acquired at the above sale); sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 1998, lot 533.

Private collection, United States.

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006.



Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1977, vol. 32, no. 337 (illustrated, pl. 118).



Exhibited

Avignon, Palais des Papes, Exposition Picasso, 1970-1972, May-September 1973, pp. 179, 231 and 233, no. 43 (illustrated in color, p. 179; titled Figure).



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