Live Auction 15972Impressionist and Modern Art Works on Paper
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Lot 191 Property from a Manhattan Private Collection

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le Babouin

Closed16 May 2018

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USD 30,000

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Le Babouin
pen and brown ink on paper
14 x 10 1/8 in. (35.5 x 25.9 cm.)
Drawn circa 1950

Marie Cuttoli, Paris (gift from the artist).
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 7 April 1976, lot 140.
Anon. sale, Neumeister Kunstauktionshaus, Munich, 2 December 1989, lot 306.
Private collection, Germany; sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 October 1995, lot 131.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

Maya Widmaier-Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The present lot is drawn on the verso of a page of Tériade's Verve, vol. VII, nos. 25-26 (October 1951).