Tête d'homme au chapeau

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Tête d'homme au chapeau
signed and dated 'Picasso 9.6.59.' (lower right); signed, dedicated and dated by David Douglas Duncan '9 June 59 Pour Janot amicalement Duncan' (centre)
wax crayon on the title page of the book Le Petite Monde de Pablo Picasso by David Douglas Duncan (Paris, 1959)
11 x 8 1/8 in. (28 x 20.5 cm.)
Executed on 9 June 1959

Provenance

Jean Bongiovanni, a gift from the artist in the 1960s, and thence by descent.

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Lot Essay

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Maya Widmaier Picasso dated Fait à Paris le 9 Decembre de l'An 2004.

Janot (misspelled here by David Douglas Duncan as it should be spelled 'Jeannot') was the nickname given to Jean Bongiovanni, who was Picasso's driver in the 1960s.

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