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Property from a Private Collection

Pablo Picasso | Françoise Gilot | Claude Picasso | Paloma Picasso

Leçon de dessin

Session begins in

March 5, 02:30 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

Bid

25,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso, Françoise Gilot, Claude Picasso and Paloma Picasso

1881 - 1973, 1921 - 2023, 1947 - 2023 and b. 1949


Leçon de dessin

signed Picasso, PALoma, claudeF. Gilot and dated 16.4.53. (lower centre)

wax crayon and pencil on paper

66.1 by 50.4 cm. 26 by 19⅞ in.

framed: 83.8 by 67.4 cm. 33 by 26½ in.

Executed on 16 April 1953.

Edward Quinn, London (acquired as a gift from the artist)

Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1993, lot 255 (consigned by the above)

Stanley J. Seeger, London (acquired from the above sale)

Sotheby's, New York, The Eye of a Collector - Works from the Collection of Stanley J. Seeger, 8 May 2001, lot 61 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above sale)

Christie's, New York, 14 November 2017, lot 223 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Munich, Lenbachhaus and Bern, Kunstmuseum, Mit dem Auge des Kindes, Kinderzeichung und moderne Kunst, 1995, no. 5.23, p. 146, illustrated in colour

Edward Quinn, Picasso at Work, London, 1965, illustrated in photographs

Edward Quinn and Pierre Daix, Picasso avec Picasso, Paris, 1987, pp. 82-83, illustrated in photographs

Edward Quinn and Pierre Daix, The Private Picasso, Boston, 1987, pp. 82-84, illustrated in photographs

Werner Spies, Picasso's World of Children, Munich and New York, 1994, p. 94, illustrated in colour

Werner Spies, Picasso's World of Children, Munich and New York, 1996, p. 248, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Picasso and Portraiture, Representation and Transformation, 1996-97, p. 442, illustrated