Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Juan Gay, musicien des Quatre Gats

Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Juan Gay, musicien des Quatre Gats
signed 'Picasso' (upper right)
watercolour and pen and brown ink on paper
8¼ x 5.7/8 in. (20.9 x 14.8 cm.)
Executed in 1897
Provenance
Graells collection, Barcelona, by 1954.
Galería Dau al Set, Barcelona.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 November 1994, lot 149.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 6, Supplement aux volumes 1 a 5, Paris, 1954, no. 106 (illustrated pl. 14).
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Turn of the Century 1890-1901, San Francisco, 2010, no. 1900-021 (illustrated p. 6; dated '1900').
A. Cirici Pellicer, Picasso antes de Picasso, Barcelona, 1946 (illustrated p. 33).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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