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Property of an Important Patron of the Arts

Pablo Picasso

Arlequin tenant une bouteille et femme

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November 14, 11:00 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 USD

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Property of an Important Patron of the Arts

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Arlequin tenant une bouteille et femme

signed Picasso and dated 1915 (on the verso)

gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper

8 ⅜ by 4 ¾ in.

21.3 by 12.2 cm.

Executed in Paris in 1915. 

Léonce Rosenberg (Galerie de l'Effort Moderne), Paris (acquired by 1920)

Galerie Gustave and Léon Bollag, Zurich (acquired in 1920)

Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne 

Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers (acquired from the above in 1938)

Christie's, New York, 11 May 1992, lot 27 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Basel, Kunstmuseum; London, The Tate Gallery; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Houston Museum of Replica Handbags s and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Douglas Cooper and the Masters of Cubism, 1987-1988, no. 65, p. 199, illustrated

Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Picasso, 1989, no. 176, p. 241 

Houston, Museum of Replica Handbags s and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Leger, Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, 1990-1991, no. 69, p. 63 

Maurice Raynal, Les Maitres de cubism, Pablo Picasso, Paris 1920, no. 30, illustrated

Christian Zervos, Oeuvres de 1912 à 1917, vol. II**, Paris 1961, no. 559, pl. 258, illustrated (with incomplete medium and dated 1916)

John Richardson, Pablo Picasso, Watercolours and Gouaches, London 1964, no. 16, p. 47, illustrated in color (titled Harlequin and Woman)

Douglas Cooper, Picasso, Théâtre, Paris 1967, no. 61, p. 345, illustrated

Nicholas Wadley, Cubism: Movements of Modern Art, New York 1970, no. 98, p. 93, illustrated (titled Harlequin and Woman)

Franco Russoli and Fiorella Minervino, L'opera completa di Picasso cubista, Milan 1972, no. 862, illustrated

Pierre Daix and Joan Rosselet, Picasso 1907-1916: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, Neuchâtel 1979, no. 846, illustrated (titled Arlequin et femme)

Josep Palau i Fabre, Picasso, Cubism (1907-1917), Paris 1990, no. 1381, illustrated in color (titled Harlequin and Woman Dancing and dated 1915-16)

Dorothy Kosinski, "G.F. Reber: Collector of Cubism," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 133, no. 1061, August 1991, p. 531 (titled Woman and Harlequin)

Christian Geelhaar, Picasso: Wegbereiter und Förderer seines Aufstiegs 1899-1939, Zurich 1993, no. 81, p. 95, illustrated in color

Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter, eds., Die Moderne und ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik, Berlin 2001, no. 55, p. 402