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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
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numbered and dated '3.5.63 VI' (upper right)
pencil on paper
10½ x 14¾ in. (27 x 37.2 cm.)
Drawn on 3 May 1963

Provenance

The artist's estate (no. 6257).

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso. Oeuvres de 1962 et 1963, vol. XXIII, Paris, 1971, no. 246 (illustrated p. 114).

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Lot Essay

This sheet stems from a sketchbook that Picasso filled with drawings inspired by his visits to the Louvre, in the late spring of 1963. He was particularly taken by Rembrandt's Bathsheba, which he re-appropriated with his trademark simplicity of line and sculptural monumentality.

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