Mar 05, 2015 - Sale 2375

Sale 2375 - Lot 361

Unsold
Estimate: $ 60,000 - $ 90,000
PABLO PICASSO
Femme nue couchée.

Pen and ink on light tan wove paper, 1969. 215x278 mm; 8 1/2x11 inches. Signed and dated "16.8.69" in ink, lower left recto.

Ex-collection Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (number 13679/63326); Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris; acquired there by the previous owner in 1993.

Published in Zervos, Oeuvres, Paris, 1976, number 388 (illustrated page 111) ; and The Picasso Project (Editors), Picasso´s Painting, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture, The Sixties III, 1968-1969, San Francisco, 2003, number 60-391 (illustrated page 228).

The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Maya Picasso, the artist's daughter, Paris.