Lot Essay
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
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Femme assise
Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Femme assise
signed and numbered ‘Picasso 12/12’ (on the side) and stamped with the foundry mark ‘G. Rudier..Fondeur. Paris.’ (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.)
Conceived in 1902 and cast in bronze at a later date in an edition of thirteen numbered 0 to 12
Femme assise
signed and numbered ‘Picasso 12/12’ (on the side) and stamped with the foundry mark ‘G. Rudier..Fondeur. Paris.’ (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.)
Conceived in 1902 and cast in bronze at a later date in an edition of thirteen numbered 0 to 12
Provenance
O'Hana Gallery, London.
Barnett & Sylvia Shine, by whom purchased circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner in 1978.
Barnett & Sylvia Shine, by whom purchased circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner in 1978.
Literature
D.-H. Kahnweiler, Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris, 1949 (another cast illustrated pl. 1).
Exh. cat., Picasso, an American Tribute, New York, 1962, no. 2 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., The Sculpture of Picasso, New York, 1967, no. 1, p. 221 (another cast illustrated p. 50).
W. Spies, Pablo Picasso, Das Plastische Werk, Berlin, 1983, no. 1, p. 421 (another cast illustrated pp. 15 & 326).
W. Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Paris, 2000, no. 1, pp. 18-20 (another cast illustrated p. 19).
Exh. cat., Brassaï/Picasso conversations avec la lumière, Paris, 2000, p. 293 (another cast illustrated in a photograph taken by Brassaï, pl. 241).
Exh. cat., Picasso, an American Tribute, New York, 1962, no. 2 (another cast illustrated).
Exh. cat., The Sculpture of Picasso, New York, 1967, no. 1, p. 221 (another cast illustrated p. 50).
W. Spies, Pablo Picasso, Das Plastische Werk, Berlin, 1983, no. 1, p. 421 (another cast illustrated pp. 15 & 326).
W. Spies, Picasso, The Sculptures, Paris, 2000, no. 1, pp. 18-20 (another cast illustrated p. 19).
Exh. cat., Brassaï/Picasso conversations avec la lumière, Paris, 2000, p. 293 (another cast illustrated in a photograph taken by Brassaï, pl. 241).
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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