Live Auction 4891Impressionist,Modern Paintings,Watercolours & Sculpture PII
Lot 133

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

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GBP 30,000

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Femme et Arlequin au Bassin de Nénuphards

watercolour and pen and black ink on antique laid paper
6 7/8 x 4in. (17.5 x 10.2cm.)

Executed circa 1905-1906

Haldsdurk, Berlin
Oscar Huldchinsky, Berlin
Mrs A Furstenberg, Amsterdam
Wildenstein & Co., London, from whom acquired by the present owner as one of a group of Picasso drawings on 21st July 1953

Specialist note

With the kind assistance of the Wildenstein Institute we have been able to trace that the present work was one of twenty-six watercolours which were offered for sale in the early 1950s. A fascinating discovery has been that Picasso saw the originals himself and was instrumental in recommending Wildenstein to purchase them.