PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Lot 36
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Lot 36 | PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Tête de Minotaure aveugle

dated and inscribed 'Boisgeloup 23 septembre XXXIV' (lower left)

pencil on paper

20 1⁄4 x 13 1⁄2 in. (50.8 x 34.4 cm.) 

Drawn in Boisgeloup on 23 September 1934





Provenance

The artist's estate.

Marina Picasso, Paris, by descent from the above.

Jan Krugier, Geneva, by whom acquired from the above in April 1989, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 February 2014, lot 33.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

B. Geiser & B. Baer, Picasso: peintre-graveur, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et des monotypes, 1932-1934, vol. II, Bern, 1992, p. 309 (titled 'Tête du minotaure').

U. Weisner, ed., Picassos Surrealismus, Werke 1925-1937, exh. cat., Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, 1991, no. 80a, pp. 341-342 (illustrated p. 341).

J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Minotaur to Guernica, 1927-1939, Barcelona, 2011, no. 665, pp. 205 & 439 (illustrated p. 204; with incorrect medium).



Exhibited

New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co., The Primacy of Design: Major Drawings in Black and Colored Media from the Marina Picasso Collection, October - December 1983, no. 45, p. 96 (illustrated p. 97).

Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Picasso at Work at Home, Selections from the Marina Picasso Collection, November 1985 - March 1986, no. 69, pp. 79 & 160 (illustrated).

Yamanashi, Musée d'Art Kiyoharu-Shirakaba, Pablo Picasso par Collection de Marina Picasso, November - December 1986, no. D-40, p. 135 (illustrated p. 92); this exhibition later travelled to Musée Municipal d'Art Shimonoséki, January - February 1987; Galerie Daimaru, March 1987; Musée Municipal d'Art Himéji, March - April 1987; Le Musée d'Art de la Préfecture Fukuoka, April - May 1987; Le Musée d'Art de la Préfecture Fukushima, May - June 1987; Musée d'Art de la Préfecture Kagoshima, June - August 1987; Musée d'Art de la Préfecture Chiba, August - September 1987; Galerie Mitsukoshi, September 1987; and Centre Culturel de la Préfecture Kagawa, September - October 1987.

Geneva, Musée Rath, Regards sur Minotaure, Revue à tête de bête, October 1987 - January 1988, no. 233 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, March - May 1988.

New York, Jan Krugier Gallery, Tauromaquia: Works by Pablo Picasso, Photographs by Lucien Clergue, November - December 1991.

Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Linie, Licht und Schatten: Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier Poniatowski, May - August 1999, no. 135, p. 286 (illustrated p. 287); this exhibition later travelled to Venice, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, The Timeless Eye: Opera su carta della collezione Jan e Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, September - December 1999, no. 148, p. 310 (illustrated p. 311).

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Picasso Minotauro, October 2000 - January 2001, no. 42, p. 152 (illustrated p. 153).

Bern, Kunstmuseum, Picasso und die Schweiz, October 2001 - January 2002, no. 109, n.p. (illustrated).

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La passion du dessin: Collection Jan et Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, March - June 2002, no. 160, p. 344 (illustrated p. 345).

Vienna, Albertina, Goya bis Picasso: Meisterwerke der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, April - August 2005, no. 155, p. 356 (illustrated p. 357).

Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Das ewige Auge - Von Rembrandt bis Picasso: Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Jan Krugier und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, July - October 2007, no. 186, p. 388 (illustrated p. 389).

Zaragoza, Museo de Zaragoza, Goya y el mundo moderno, December 2008 - March 2009, no. 205, p. 328 (illustrated).



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