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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Portrait de Suzanne Bloch

Price realised GBP 45,600
Estimate
GBP 20,000 – GBP 30,000
Closed: 19 Jun 2007
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Portrait de Suzanne Bloch

Price realised GBP 45,600
Closed: 19 Jun 2007
Price realised GBP 45,600
Closed: 19 Jun 2007
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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Portrait de Suzanne Bloch
signed and dated 'Picasso 1904' (lower centre)
brush and brown ink on paper
5¾ x 5¼ in. (14.6 x 13.5 cm.)
Executed in 1904
Provenance
Trudi Neuberg-Coray, Ascona.
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 3 December 1985, lot 413.
Stanley J. Seeger; his sale, Sotheby's, New York, 4 November 1993, lot 404.
Gianni Versace, by whom acquired at the above sale; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1999, lot 2.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 2005, lot 174.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
P. Daix, G. Boudaille & J. Rosselet, Picasso, 1900-1906, Neuchâtel, 1966, no. XI.16 (illustrated p. 246).
P. Lecaldano, L'opera Completa di Picasso Blu e Rosa, Milan, 1968, no. 135 (illustrated p. 98).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Supplément aux Années 1903-1906, vol. 22, Paris, 1970, no. 103 (illustrated pl. 35).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso, The Early Years, 1881-1907, Barcelona, 1985, no. 983 (illustrated p. 379).
M. McCully, Picasso: A Private Collection, London, 1993 (illustrated p. 37).
Exh. cat., Picasso et les femmes, Chemnitz, 2002 (illustrated p. 56).
Exhibited
Frankfurt, Kunstverein, Steiernes Haus, Picasso - 150 Handzeichnungen aus sieben Jahrzehnten, May - July 1965, no. 23 (titled Portrait de Colette); this exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Kunstverein.
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