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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Trois danseurs
Details
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Trois danseurs
signed and dated 'Picasso 25' (upper right)
pen and India ink on blue paper
13 7/8 x 10 in. (35.4 x 25.4 cm.)
Drawn in Monte Carlo in 1925
Trois danseurs
signed and dated 'Picasso 25' (upper right)
pen and India ink on blue paper
13 7/8 x 10 in. (35.4 x 25.4 cm.)
Drawn in Monte Carlo in 1925
Provenance
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the artist, before 1939).
James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, February 1968).
M.S. Spolane, Houston.
Paul Kantor, Beverly Hills.
The Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena (acquired from the above, July 1973); sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 2 April 1974, lot 52.
David Ellis-Jones, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, United Kingdom.
Cohen Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, April 1996.
James Goodman Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, February 1968).
M.S. Spolane, Houston.
Paul Kantor, Beverly Hills.
The Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena (acquired from the above, July 1973); sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 2 April 1974, lot 52.
David Ellis-Jones, New York (acquired at the above sale).
Private collection, United Kingdom.
Cohen Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, April 1996.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1952, vol. 5, no. 434 (illustrated, pl. 173).
D. Cooper, Picasso Theater, New York, 1968, p. 353, no. 360 (illustrated; titled Three Dancers Resting).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926, Barcelona, 1999, p. 521, no. 1569 (illustrated, p. 440; titled Three Dancers Conversing).
S. Campbell, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and his Hunt for the Best, New Haven, 2010, p. 357, no. 969 (illustrated).
D. Cooper, Picasso Theater, New York, 1968, p. 353, no. 360 (illustrated; titled Three Dancers Resting).
J. Palau i Fabre, Picasso: From the Ballets to Drama, 1917-1926, Barcelona, 1999, p. 521, no. 1569 (illustrated, p. 440; titled Three Dancers Conversing).
S. Campbell, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and his Hunt for the Best, New Haven, 2010, p. 357, no. 969 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Fort Worth Art Center and Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Picasso: Two Concurrent Retrospective Exhibitions, February-March 1967, p. 103, no. 186 (titled Three Dancers at Rest).
London, David Ellis-Jones, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolours, autumn 1974, no. 23 (illustrated in color).
London, David Ellis-Jones, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolours, autumn 1974, no. 23 (illustrated in color).
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