Lot 53
Tête de femme au chapeau
Sold
$889,000
Est $700,000 - $1,000,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART, EVENING SALE PART II
ARTIST
Pablo Picasso
Size
13 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. (34.9 x 26.7 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Medium
crayon on paper
Signature
Executed on January 13, 1962.
Provenance
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (acquired directly from the artist) Private Collection, Germany (acquired from the above) Private Collection, Germany (by descent from the above) Christie's, London, February 10, 2005, lot 666 Hammer Galleries, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1961 à 1962, Paris, 1968, vol. 20, no. 193, pp. 93, 154 (illustrated in its unsigned state, p. 93)
Exhibited
Lucerne, Galerie Rosengart, Picasso: An Idea Becomes Sculpture, Variations on a Theme, July–September 1970, n.p. (illustrated in its unsigned state) Stadthalle Balingen, Pablo Picasso: Portrait-Figurine-Skulptur, June 17–August 20, 1989, p. 123 (illustrated) Stadthalle Balingen, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphosen des Menschen. Arbeiten auf Papier 1895-1972, June 22–September 24, 2000, no. 140, n.p. (illustrated)