Etude pour "La suite des déjeuners"

Details

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Etude pour "La suite des déjeuners"
signed, dated and numbered 'Picasso 10.8.59. I' (upper center)
pencil on paper
12¾ x 16½ in. (32.4 x 41.9 cm.)
Drawn on 10 August 1959

Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1967.

Literature

D. Cooper, Pablo Picasso, Les Déjeuners, Paris, 1962, no. 1 (illustrated).
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1968, vol. 19, no. 40 (illustrated, pl. 10).
The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Fifties II, 1956-1959, San Francisco, 2000, p. 352, no. 59-261 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

The present drawing is the first work Douglas Cooper records in his contemporary monograph of the artist's reinterpretations of Edouard Manet's Le déjeuner sur l'herbe. For the broader series, please see note for lot 144.

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