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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
A CLOSE FRIENDSHIP: PICASSO FROM THE COLLECTION OF NORMAN AND GRETE GRANZ
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Portrait de Norman Granz, jeune homme

Details
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Portrait de Norman Granz, jeune homme
signed, dated and inscribed 'le 9.4.69. Pour Norman Picasso 9.4.69.' (along the upper edge)
red felt-tip pen on paper
11 x 8 ¼ in. (27.8 x 21 cm.)
Drawn on 9 April 1969
Provenance
Norman Granz, Geneva (gift from the artist, April 1969).
By descent from the above to the present owner.
Literature
T. Hershorn, Norman Granz: The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice, Berkeley, 2011, p. 111 (illustrated, fig. 20).
Sale Room Notice
Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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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.
The present work is drawn on the frontispiece of Picasso's Guernica, written by Anthony Blunt and published by Oxford University Press in 1969.

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