Profil de Catherine

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Profil de Catherine
dated '1.57.' (on the reverse)
painted and glazed ceramic tile
6 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (15.6 x 17.3 cm.)
Executed in January 1957; this work is unique

Provenance

Marina Picasso, Paris.
Jan Krugier Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Lot Essay

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The subject of this touching portrait has been confirmed by Claude Picasso as Catherine Hutin. When Jacqueline Roque met Picasso at Madoura in the early 1950s, she had a daughter, Catherine, by her previous marriage to André Hutin. Whilst Picasso painted Jacqueline on hundreds of occasions, portraits of Catherine such as this are rare in Picasso’s oeuvre.

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