Femme assise

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme assise
dated and numbered 'vendredi 13.11.70.III' (centre left)
pencil on paper
9 1/2 x 12 5/8 in. (24 x 32.1 cm.)
Drawn on 13 November 1970

Provenance

Private Collection, France, a gift from the artist.
Heinz Berggruen, Paris & Berlin, by whom acquired from the above; his sale [Twenty-six Drawings from the Berggruen Sketchbook], Sotheby's, London, 9 February 2005, lot 222.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Picasso, The Berggruen Album, 2004, no. 24 (illustrated).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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