L'équilibriste
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
L'équilibriste
signed, dated and inscribed 'pour Lord Picasso Paris 5 novembre 1945' (upper left)
pencil on paper
25 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (65 x 51 cm.)
Executed in Paris on 5 November 1945
L'équilibriste
signed, dated and inscribed 'pour Lord Picasso Paris 5 novembre 1945' (upper left)
pencil on paper
25 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (65 x 51 cm.)
Executed in Paris on 5 November 1945
Provenance
James Lord, Paris, a gift from the artist in 1945.
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago (nos. C88-7-19 & C88-5-3).
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Ontario.
Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1980s.
B.C. Holland, Inc., Chicago (nos. C88-7-19 & C88-5-3).
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Ontario.
Acquired by the family of the present owner in the 1980s.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. 14, Oeuvres de 1944-1946, Paris, 1963, no. 127 (illustrated pl. 129).
J. Lord, Picasso and Dora, New York, 1993 (illustrated pl. 6).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Liberation and Post-War Years, 1944-1949, San Francisco, 2000, no. 45-073 (illustrated p. 39).
J. Lord, Picasso and Dora, New York, 1993 (illustrated pl. 6).
The Picasso Project (ed.), Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, Liberation and Post-War Years, 1944-1949, San Francisco, 2000, no. 45-073 (illustrated p. 39).
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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