Live Auction 11790Impressionist & Modern Works on Paper
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Lot 291

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Buste de femme

Closed3 February 2016

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GBP 52,500

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Buste de femme
with the inscription '23 Mayo 1903 R' (on the reverse)
pen and ink on paper
9 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (23.2 x 17.2 cm.)
Drawn on 23 May 1903

The Leicester Galleries, London.
George Prinz, London, by whom acquired from the above in the 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

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

Claude Picasso has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

According to Claude Picasso the date on the reverse of the sheet is by the hand of the artist's father, José Ruiz y Blasco. In 1903 Picasso returned to Barcelona from Paris, where he would remain for the next fifteen months, and during this time produced over fifty works.