Tête d'homme

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1873)
Tête d'homme
signed, dedicated and dated 'Pour jeannot Picasso le 12.5.59.' (upper edge)
wax crayon executed on the title page of the catalogue exhibition Picasso (Musée Cantini, Marseille, May - July 1959)
6½ x 6 3/8 in. (16.4 x 16.3 cm.)
Executed on 12 May 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 Paris, le 9 Décembre de l'An 2004.

Jeannot was Picasso's nickname Jean Bongiovanni, the artist's driver in the 1960s.

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