Artworks at TEFAF Maastricht 2023, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd

Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973

Nu et homme assis

Drawn on December 20, 1969.

Blue crayon on paper

17 by 21 1/2 in./ 43 by 54.6 cm

Signed Picasso and dated 20.12.69 (upper left)

Collections

Marlborough Fine Arts, Ltd., London

George Embiricos, Lausanne (Acquired from the above in 1972 and sold by the estate: Sotheby’s New York, Thursday Nov 8 2012 (lot 32)
Sale: Sotheby’s New York, Thursday May 8 2014 (lot 324)
Private Collection, London, acquired at the above sale
Sale: Sotheby’s New York, Tuesday May 10 2016 (lot 393)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Avignon, Palais de Papes, Pablo Picasso, 1970, no. 44, illustrated in the catalogue

New York, Marlborough Gallery & Saidenberg Gallery, Homage to Picasso for his 90th Birthday, 1971, no. 111, illustrated in the catalogue

Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1969, vol. 31, Paris, 1976, no. 559, illustrated pl. 179

Rafael Alberti, A Year of Picasso, Paintings: 1969, New York, 1971, no. 151, illustrated p. 148

The Picasso Project, ed., Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture: The Sixties III 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, no. 69- 566, illustrated p. 293