Live Auction 7953Impressionist/ModernWorks on Paper
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Lot 269

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Tauromachie

Closed10 February 2011

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GBP 58,850

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Tauromachie
signed, dated and inscribed 'pour mon cher ami Max Pellequer Picasso 10.2.57.' (lower right)
brush and ink on paper
18 x 13 in. (45.5 x 33 cm.)
Executed on 10 February 1957

Max Pellequer, Paris, a gift from the artist.
Lionel Prejger, Paris.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 May 1997, lot 414.
Acquired at the above sale; sale, Christie's, London, 8 February 2007, lot 688.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Maya Widmaier-Picasso.
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from Claude Picasso.

This drawing is executed on a blank leaf taken from Pierre Bertrand's book Témoignage, which is about the life of Jean Cocteau.