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Femme assise dans un fauteuil
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme assise dans un fauteuil
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
gouache and watercolour on paper
10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (26.2 x 19.6 cm.)
Executed in Biarritz in 1918
Femme assise dans un fauteuil
signed 'Picasso' (lower right)
gouache and watercolour on paper
10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (26.2 x 19.6 cm.)
Executed in Biarritz in 1918
Provenance
John Becker, New York, by whom acquired directly from the artist in the early 1920s, and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1988, lot 344.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 3, Oeuvres de 1917 à 1919, Paris, 1949, no. 212 (illustrated pl. 76).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, no. 18-123 (illustrated p. 133).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, From Cubism to Neoclassicism, 1917-1919, San Francisco, 1995, no. 18-123 (illustrated p. 133).
Exhibited
Bogotá, Museo Nacional de Colombia, Picasso en Bogotá, May - August 2000, no. 15, p. 208 (illustrated p. 81).
Special notice
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