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Etude pour 'Déjeuner sur l'herbe'
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Etude pour 'Déjeuner sur l'herbe'
dated and numbered '14.6.62. XVI' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Pour Douglas Cooper son ami Picasso 25.8.63.' (lower right)
pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 16½ in. (27 x 41.9 cm.)
Drawn on 14 June 1962
Etude pour 'Déjeuner sur l'herbe'
dated and numbered '14.6.62. XVI' (lower left); signed, dated and inscribed 'Pour Douglas Cooper son ami Picasso 25.8.63.' (lower right)
pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 16½ in. (27 x 41.9 cm.)
Drawn on 14 June 1962
Provenance
Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers, a gift from the artist in August 1963.
W.A. McCarty-Cooper, by whom acquired from the above; his sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1992, lot 87.
Dennis Hotz Fine Art, Johannesburg.
Acquired by the present owner in June 1993.
W.A. McCarty-Cooper, by whom acquired from the above; his sale, Christie's, New York, 11 May 1992, lot 87.
Dennis Hotz Fine Art, Johannesburg.
Acquired by the present owner in June 1993.
Literature
D. Cooper, Picasso: Les déjeuners, Paris, 1962, pp. 11 & 14.
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, no. 62-097 (illustrated p. 242).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Sixties I, 1960-1963, San Francisco, 2002, no. 62-097 (illustrated p. 242).
Exhibited
Basel Kunstmuseum, Douglas Cooper and the Masters of Cubism, November 1987 - January 1988, no. 76 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 172); this exhibition later travelled to London, Tate Gallery and Philadelphia, Museum of Art.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Pablo Picasso, October 1988 - January 1989, no. 211 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 114).
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, October - December 1990, no. 81; this exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, County Museum of Art.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Pablo Picasso, October 1988 - January 1989, no. 211 (illustrated in the catalogue p. 114).
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism, October - December 1990, no. 81; this exhibition later travelled to Los Angeles, County Museum of Art.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Claude Ruiz-Picasso dated Paris, le 24.05.05.