Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Portrait de famille V

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Portrait de famille V
dated and numbered '11.10.62 II' (upper left)
pencil over lithographic base
19 3/4 x 25 3/4in. (50 x 65.5cm.)
Executed in 1962

Provenance

Estate of the Artist (Inventory no. 6155) and thence to Marina Picasso, the artist's daughter
Hirschl & Adler, New York (HA 13108D)
Jan Krugier, New York
Baudoin Lebon, Paris (BL 7904)

Exhibited

New York, Hirschl & Adler, Picasso: The Late Drawings, January-February 1988, no. 5 (illustrated in colour).
Montreal, Landau Fine Art, Pablo Picasso and Fernand Lger, November-December 1991 (illustrated p. 29).

Lot Essay

This is one of several drawings wich Picasso executed over a lithograph dated 6 July 1972 and entitled Family Portrait V (see Fernand Mourlot & Andr Sauret, Picasso Lithographs, Editions du Livre 1970, no. 387. The lithograph sheet size is smaller, measuring 17 1/4 x 22in.). A further drawing executed over this lithograph and dated 16.10.62 is illustrated in Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 23, Oeuvres de 1962 et 1963, Paris 1971, no. 3, p. 2.

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