PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Le peintre et son modèle

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Le peintre et son modèle
signed ‘Picasso’ (lower left); dated ‘8.9.11.64.’ (on the reverse)
oil and Ripolin on canvas
51 1⁄8 x 76 ¾ in. (130 x 195 cm.)
Painted in Mougins on 8-9 November 1964
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Richard K. & Florence Weil, St. Louis, Missouri.
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, by whom acquired from the above on 19 December 1985.
Private collection, Europe, by whom acquired from the above on 10 October 1997, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 17 November 2022, lot 36.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 24, Oeuvres de 1964, Paris, 1971, no. 263 (illustrated pl. 99).
R. Alberti, Picasso en Avignon, Paris, 1971, p. 95.
P. Cabanne, Le siècle de Picasso, vol. II, La guerre, Le parti, La gloire, L'homme seul, 1937-1973, Paris, 1975, p. 318 & 365 (illustrated p. 250; dated '9 November 1969').
W. Spies, ed., Pablo Picasso, Die zwei Geschwindigkeiten im Spätwek, Baden-Baden, 2004, p. 23 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Aus privaten Sammlungen, February - April 1986, no. 57.
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Picasso, der Maler und seine Modelle, July - October 1986, no. 54, pp. 98 & 110 (illustrated pp. 98 & 99).
Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Picasso 1960-1973, October 1988 - January 1989, no. 16, pp. 63 & 64 (detail illustrated on the front and back cover).
Basel, Galerie Beyeler, L’éternel féminin, November 1989 - January 1990, no. 58 (illustrated).
Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Die Metamorphosen der Bilder, November 1992 - February 1993, no. 88, pp. 154-158 & 317 (illustrated p. 157).
Lausanne, FAE Musée d’art contemporain, Picasso contemporain, May - September 1994, p. 129 (illustrated pp. 72-73).
'The Art of the Deal' in Vanity Fair, April 1995, vol. 58, no. 4 (illustrated in situ).
Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition from Swiss Private Collections, May - November 1996, no. 15, p. 46 (illustrated p. 47); this exhibition later travelled to Nagasaki, Huis ten Bosch Museum of Art, June - August 1996; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, August - September 1996 and Tokyo, Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, October - November 1996.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Picasso, Las grandes series, March - June 2001, no. 84, pp. 298, 451 & 452 (illustrated pp. 298 & 451).
Milan, Palazzo Reale, Picasso: 200 capolavori dal 1898 al 1972, September 2001 - January 2002, no. 175, pp. 307 & 363 (illustrated p. 307).
Baden-Baden, Museum Frieder Burda, Picasso, Von Mougins nach Baden-Baden, Der späte Picasso, September 2005 - January 2006, pp. 37 & 80 (illustrated p. 37).
Dusseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Picasso, Malen gegen die Zeit, February - May 2007, no. 26, p. 79 (illustrated).
Berlin, Galerie Céline und Heiner Bastian am Kupfergarten, Picasso, Die Freiheit der späten Werke, February - April 2011, no. 5, p. 69 (illustrated pp. 32-33 & 69).
Aix-en-Provence, Musée Granet, Chefs-d’oeuvre du musée Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, May - September 2012, no. 12, pp. 62 & 212 (illustrated p. 63).
Bremen, Kunsthalle, Sylvette, Sylvette, Sylvette: Picasso and the Model, February - June 2014, no. 89, p. 254 (illustrated p. 255).
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Picasso: L'oeuvre ultime, hommage à Jacqueline, June - November 2016, no. 32, p. 92 (illustrated pp. 92-93).

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