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    25 June 2008

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    • Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
    Lot 287

    Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

    Nu couché

    Price realised

    GBP 277,250

    Estimate

    GBP 150,000 - GBP 200,000

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    Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
    Nu couché
    signed, dated and numbered '11.8.69 VI Picasso' (lower right)
    pencil on paper
    19¾ x 25 5/8 in. (50.2 x 65 cm.)
    Drawn on 11 August 1969

    Provenance

    Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
    Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London.
    Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 February 2003, lot 501.
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owners.

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    Literature and exhibited

    Literature

    R. Alberti, A Year of Picasso Paintings: 1969, New York, 1971, no. 136 (illustrated p. 146).
    C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 31, Oeuvres de 1969, Paris, 1976, no. 371 (illustrated p. 108).
    K. Gallwitz, Picasso. The Heroic Years, New York, 1985, no. 300a (illustrated p. 188).
    The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, no. 69-373 (illustrated p. 223).


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    VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium


    Pre-Lot Text

    PROPERTY FROM THE JUDITH AND ABRAHAM AMAR FOUNDATION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY

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