James Brooks
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Nu Couché, 1972
Pencil on paper mounted at the edges on board
22 ¼ by 29 ½ inches
Signed, dated and numbered ‘Picasso 20.4.72.II’ top right
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London
Private Collection, London
Exhibited
Paris Galerie Louise Leiris, Picasso: 172 dessins en noir et en couleurs, December 1972 – January 1973
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1978, Vol. 33 (Oeuvres de 1971-1972), no. 357 (illustrated, pl. 127)
Tête de Femme, 1965
Pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches
Dated and numbered 'Nimes 25.9.65 IV' upper left
Maya Widmaier Picasso has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Provenance
Maurice and Jacqueline Brenu, Mougins, France
Guggenheim Asher Associates, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2004
Exhibited
Milan, Palazzo Marina alla Scala, Picasso: La Collection Nacosta, October 1996
Seoul, KED Museum, Picasso: The Hidden Collection, October 1996
Vienna, Kunsthaus, Picasso: Die Verborgene Sammlung, August 1998
Nu a la draperie (Etude pour ‘La Grande Danseuse’), 1907
Oil on canvas
12 1/4 x 8 ¾ inches
Signed ‘Picasso’ (lower center)
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (no. 02244)
Georges Salles, Paris (Director, Musées de France 1945-1957)
Jean Aubier, Paris
SOLD
Tête de Femme, 25 September 1965
Pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches
Dated and numbered 'Nimes 25.9.65 l' upper left
Maya Widmaier Picasso has kindly confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Provenance
Maurice and Jacqueline Bresnu, Mougins, France
Guggenheim Asher Associates, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 2004
Exhibited
Milan, Palazzo Marina alla Scala, Picasso: La Collection Nacosta, October 1996
Seoul, KED Museum, Picasso: The Hidden Collection, October 1996
Vienna, Kunsthaus, Picasso: Die Verborgene Sammlung, August 1998
Buste de Femme au chapeau (Portrait of Dora Maar), 1943
Oil on cradled panel
25 ½ x 21 ¼ inches
Signed lower right, ‘Picasso’
Provenance
Louis Carré, Paris
Marlborough Fine Arts, London
H. Surger, New York
Parke Bernet Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New York
SOLD
Notre-Dame de Paris, 1954
Oil on canvas
25 3/4 x 21 inches (65.5 x 53.5 cm)
dated 25.10.54 (lower right)
Provenance
Estate of the artist (no.13292).
Perls Galleries, New York.
Brook Street Gallery, London.
Private collection, Texas.
Collection Dobe, Zurich.
Private collection (acquired anon. sale, Christie's New York, 13 May 1999, lot 499)
Private collection, Greenwich.
Van de Weghe Ltd, New York.
Exhibited
Paris, Grand Palais, Hommage Pablo Picasso, November 1966 - February 1967, no.236 (illustrated).
Zurich, Collection Dorbe, Urban Cityscapes, summer 1989.
Literature
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties I,
1950-1955, San Francisco, 2000, no.54-236 (a), p.242 (illustrated).
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Maya Widmaier Picasso and by Claude
Picasso.
SOLD