Danseur espagnole

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Danseur espagnole
black crayon and pencil on paper
5 x 8 1/2 in. (12.7 x 21.7 cm.)
Drawn in Madrid in 1901

Provenance

The artist's estate.
Marina Picasso, by descent from the above (with her collector's stamp on the reverse).
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 28 November 1995, lot 195.

Literature

The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso’s Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Turn of the Century, 1900-1901, San Francisco, 2010, no. 1900/01-016, p. 93 (illustrated; dated '1900/1901').

Exhibited

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Pablo Picasso, Werke aus der Sammlung Marina Picasso, February - April 1981, no. 16.12 (illustrated p. 207; dated 'Madrid 1901'); travelling exhibition.

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.

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Lot Essay

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

This drawing stems from Carnet 96, a sketch book of 24 dawings that the artist executed in Madrid in 1901. Returning from Paris where he had spent the autumn of 1900, the influence of Toulouse-Lautrec and Picasso's adventures in the demi-monde of Montmartre is evident in the artist's treatment of typically Spanish subjects, including a woman in a mantilla, a torero and the present work, a flamenco dancer.

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