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L'âne savant
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
L'âne savant
signed, dated and numbered 'Picasso 10.1.54.III' (upper right)
pen and brush and India ink on paper
9 3/8 x 12½ in. (23.8 x 31.8 cm.)
Executed on 10 January 1954
L'âne savant
signed, dated and numbered 'Picasso 10.1.54.III' (upper right)
pen and brush and India ink on paper
9 3/8 x 12½ in. (23.8 x 31.8 cm.)
Executed on 10 January 1954
Provenance
Marlborough Fine Art, London.
Eric Korner, London, by whom acquired from the above circa 1955.
Eric Korner, London, by whom acquired from the above circa 1955.
Literature
Verve - Revue artistique et littéraire, vol. VIII, nos. 29 and 30, Paris, September 1954 (illustrated pl. 109).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. 16, Paris, 1965, no. 164 (illustrated p. 55).
Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties I, 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, no. 54-064 (illustrated p. 186).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1953 à 1955, vol. 16, Paris, 1965, no. 164 (illustrated p. 55).
Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties I, 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, no. 54-064 (illustrated p. 186).
Exhibited
London, Marlborough Fine Art, Picasso drawings and bronzes, May - June 1955, no. 43.
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