Cinq études pour "La femme au coq"

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Cinq études pour "La femme au coq"
three dated '21-2-38-'; one dated '23-2-38-'; one undated
pencil on graph paper
Each: 11½ x 8¼ in. (29.2 x 21 cm.)
Drawn on 21-23 February 1938 (5)

Provenance

Mary Callery, New York.
By descent from the above to the late owner.

Literature

C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1958, vol. 9, no. 108 (a; illustrated, pl. 52) and no. 115 (b; illustrated, pl. 56).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: Spanish Civil War 1937-1939, San Francisco, 1997, p. 137, nos. 38-034 and 38-035 (a and b illustrated respectively).

Sale Room Notice

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.

Lot Essay

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Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this drawing.

Five drawings in one lot, a-e (5).

(fig. 1) Pablo Picasso, Femme au coq, 1938.

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