Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Les déjeuners

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Les déjeuners
signed, dated and numbered 'Picasso 8.7.61. VI' (upper right)
pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 16½ in. (27 x 42 cm.)
Drawn on 8 July 1961

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1972.

Literature

D. Cooper, Pablo Picasso: Les Déjeuners, Paris, 1963, no. 89 (illustrated).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1968, vol. 20, no. 67 (illiustrated, pl. 35).

Exhibited

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Picasso at Large in Toronto Collections, July-October 1988.

Lot Essay

Late in life, with many of his artist friends dead or estranged, Picasso embarked on series of "dialogues" with past masters. In August 1959 he commenced a sequence of works based on Edouard Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863 (Wildenstein, no. 67; coll. Musée d'Orsay, Paris). By December 1961, when the series drew to a close, Picasso had completed 27 paintings and 138 drawings, including the present work and the following lot.

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