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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 5, 2009 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale | 9 | $****** - ****** | Nature Morte |
paintings
59.4 x 92.1 cm (23.39 x 36.26 in)
oil on canvas
Signed Picasso (upper right); signed Picasso and dated 4 avril 1944 on the reverse
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired from the artist by 1946)
Jacques Sarlie, New York (by 1957 and until at least 1960). Baldwin Sarlie. Private Collection (sold: Sotheby's, London, June 12, 1963, lot 99). Private Collection. Acquired from the above in 2002
New York, The Museum of Modern Art & Chicago, The Art Institute, Picasso, 75th Anniversary Exhibition, 1957, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Still Life with Candle). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Picasso: a loan exhibition of his paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, prints, and illustrated books, 1958, no. 212a, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Still Life with Candle). London, The Tate Gallery, Picasso, 1960, no. 176, illustrated in the catalogue (titled Still Life with Candle)
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of his Art, New York, 1946, illustrated p. 237 (titled Still Life with Candle). Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1943 et 1944, vol. XIII, Paris, 1962, no. 255, illustrated (illustrated without the signature). The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolours, Drawings and Sculpture: Nazi Occupation 1940-1944, San Francisco, 1999, no. 44-036, illustrated p. 324 (illustrated without the signature)
