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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 26A | $****** - ****** | Nature morte: Tête de taureau |
paintings
81 x 101.3 cm (31.88 x 39.88 in)
oil on canvas
signed and dated 'Picasso 15.1.39.' (lower center)
Paul and Marguerite Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Transferred to Castel Floirac, Floirac-la-Souys, Bordeaux by Paul Rosenberg and subsequently confiscated following his emigration on 17 June 1940.
Returned to Paul Rosenberg by Martin Fabiani (December 1945).
Private collection, Paris (by descent from the above); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., New York, 3 July 1979, lot 36.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1958, vol. 9, no. 237 (illustrated prior to signature, pl. 114; with incorrect dimensions).
J. Richardson, ed., Picasso: An American Tribute, New York, 1962 (illustrated, fig. 18; titled Bull's Head and Pitcher).
J.S. Boggs, Picasso and Things, exh. cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992, p. 259 (illustrated prior to signature, fig. 102a; titled Skull of a Bull and Pitcher).
P. Daix, Picasso: Life and Art, New York, 1993, p. 257.
signed and dated 'Picasso 15.1.39.' (lower center)
oil on canvas
31 ⅞ x 39 ⅞ in. (81 x 100 cm.)
Painted on 15 January 1939
