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Contours of Modernity | A Private European Collection

Pablo Picasso

Nu couché

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Pablo Picasso

1881 - 1973


Nu couché

signed, dated 13.8.70. and numbered VI (upper right); dated and numbered VI (on the verso)

pencil, crayon and pastel on card

26.3 by 33.2 cm. 10⅜ by 13⅛ in.

framed: 57.6 by 64.7 cm. 22¾ by 25½ in.

Executed on 13 August 1970.

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (until at least 1971)

Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne

Private Collection, Austria (acquired from the above by 2002)

Sotheby's, London, 22 June 2004, lot 457 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso. Dessins en noir et en couleurs, 15 décembre 1969 - 12 janvier 1971, 1971-72, no. 156, p. 81, illustrated in colour

Chemnitz, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Picasso et les femmes, 2002, p. 342, illustrated in colour

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1970, Paris 1977, Vol. 32, pl. 81, no. 257, illustrated