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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Petite fille
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Petite fille
wax crayon on cut-out card (recto and verso)
9½ x 5 1/8 in. (24 x 13 cm.)
Executed in the 1940s
Provenance
Marie-Thérèse Walter, Paris.
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, by 1973.
Rachel Adler Gallery, New York.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 26 February 1990, lot 110.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
J. Palau i Fabre, Pare Picasso, Barcelona, 1977, no. 10 (illustrated pl. 12).
W. Spies, Picasso's World of Children, Munich & New York, 1996 (illustrated p. 235).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Europe at War, 1939-1940, San Francisco, 1998, no. 40-497 (illustrated p. 224).
Exhibited
Geneva, Galerie Jan Krugier, Une Collection Picasso, December 1973.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium
Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Maya Widmaier Picasso.