PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 82
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Lot 82 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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£ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Sylvette

dated ‘2.5.54.’ (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

39 1⁄4 x 31 7⁄8 in. (99.8 x 81 cm.)

Painted in Vallauris on 2 May 1954







Provenance

The artist’s estate (no. 13281).

Marina Picasso, Paris, by descent from the above.

Chalette International, New York, by whom acquired from the above.

Acquired from the above by the present owner on 1 June 1986.





Literature

C. Zervos, ‘Images de Picasso, Peintes cette année et exposées à la maison de la pensée française’, in Cahiers d’Art, vol. 1, 1954, p. 73 (illustrated; titled ‘Portrait de Mlle D.’).

J.-P. Ollivier & F. Pagès, ‘Une jeune fille de dix-neuf ans inspire à Picasso son époque la plus souriante: l’époque Sylvette’, in Paris-Match, no. 281, Paris, 21 August 1954, p. 45 (illustrated).

'The Ponytail Period', in Life Magazine, vol. 37, no. 19, New York, 8 November 1954, p. 119 (illustrated).

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 16, Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, Paris, 1965, no. 292, n.p. (illustrated pl. 94).





Exhibited

Paris, Maison de la Pensée Francaise, Picasso: Deux périodes, 1900-1914 & 1950-1954, July 1954.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Picasso, Peintures 1900-1955, June - October 1955, no. 125, n.p. (illustrated n.p.; titled ‘Sylvette (portrait de Mlle D...)’); this exhibition later travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, October - December 1955, no. 118; Cologne, Rheinisches Museum, December 1955 - February 1956; and Hamburg, Kunsthalle-Altbau, March - April 1956.

Bremen, Kunsthalle, Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette, Picasso and the Model, February - June 2014, no. 27, pp. 123 & 276 (illustrated pp. 123 & 277; titled ‘Sylvette (Portrait of Mademoiselle D.)’).





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