Lot 49
Lot 49
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARNETT AND SYLVIA SHINE SOLD BY THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE SYBIL SHINE
PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Tête de femme

Price Realised GBP 68,750
Estimate
GBP 35,000 - GBP 55,000
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

Tête de femme

Price Realised GBP 68,750
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
Price Realised GBP 68,750
Closed: 14 Jul 2020
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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Tête de femme
signed 'Picasso' (on the back)
bronze with brown patina
Height: 458 in. (11.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1906-1907 and cast between 1909-1939 in an edition of at least eight
Provenance
O'Hana Gallery, London.
Barnett & Sylvia Shine, by whom purchased circa 1960s, and thence by descent to the present owner in 1978.
Literature
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, vol. II, Œuvres de 1912 à 1917, Paris, 1942, no. 574 (another cast illustrated pl. 266).
Brassaï & D.H. Kahnweiler, Les Sculptures de Picasso, Paris, 1949 (another cast illustrated, pl. 3).
W. Boeck & J. Sabartés, Picasso, London, 1961, no. 79, p. 489 (illustrated p. 433).
W. Spies, Picasso Sculpture, London, 1971, no. 12, p. 301 (another cast illustrated p. 40).
M.L. Besnard Bernadec, M. Ricket & H. Seckel, Musée Picasso, catalogue sommaire des collections, Paris, 1985, no. 278, p. 151 (another cast illustrated).
W. Spies & C. Piot, Picasso, The Sculptures, Stuttgart, 2000, no. 12, p. 394 (another cast illustrated pp. 41 & 346).
Special notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
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