Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Toréador et taureau

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Toréador et taureau
signed, dated and dedicated 'pour B. Geiger son ami Picasso le 12.11.59.' (upper left)
gouache on paper
9 1/8 x 13 in. (23.1 x 33.2 cm.)
Painted on 12 November 1959

Provenance

Bernard Geiser, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Private collection, Switzerland.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2015, lot 365.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The Comité Picasso confirmed the authenticity of this work in 1988.
The present work is painted on the frontispiece of a copy of Picasso, published by J.A. Gaya Nuño in 1957.

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