Live Auction 1874Impressionist and Modern Art
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Lot 107

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Le visage de la paix

Closed12 September 2007

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Le visage de la paix
signed, dated and inscribed 'Picasso Le 18.9.53 Vallauris' (lower right)
red wax crayon on paper
11 7/8 x 8½ in. (30.2 x 21.6 cm.)
Drawn on 18 September 1953

Gallerie 65, Cannes.
Anon. sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, 19 October 1973, lot 41.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This drawing was executed on the frontispiece of Paul Eluard's Le Visage de la Paix (Paris, Editions Cercle d'Art, 1951), for which Picasso provided the illustrations.