$746,500
Pablo Picasso 1881–1973
Buste de Femme
1942 pencil on wove paper 15 h x 12¼ w in (38 x 31 cm)
result: $746,500
This work is a study for the painting Femme Assise dans un Fauteuil also completed on April 23rd, 1942.
Dated to the top right corner '23.4.42'. Estate stamp to the reverse 'Succ. Pablo Picasso Coll. Marina Picasso'.
provenance: Estate of the Artist, Marina Picasso | Jerald Melbery Gallery, Charlotte, NC | Estate of William H. Van Every, Jr. | Sotheby's, New York, Impressionist & Modern Drawings and Watercolors , 12 November 1988, Lot 141A | Acquired from James Rondell, London in 1997 | Important private collection
literature: Pablo Picasso, Vol. 12 Oeuvres de 1942 et 1943 , Zervos, no. 39
Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2013-04-25
