
Property from a Private Collection
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, claude, F. 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
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