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PABLO PICASSO Méléagre tue le Sanglier de Calydon.
Pencil on light tan wove Japan paper, circa 1930. 330x245 mm; 13x9 3/4 inches. Signed in pencil, upper right recto. Ex-collection Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, with their label on the frame back.
Exhibited at "Mostra Internazionale del Disegno Moderno," Bergamo, September-October, 1950, catalogue number 61e.
Likely a study for the same-titled etching from Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, 1930-31 (Bloch 114).
The Rosengart collection is noted for it's outstanding collection of Picasso drawings and paintings. Thanks to a close friendship with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Picasso's principal dealer in France, Siegfried Rosengart represented Picasso in Switzerland. He and his daughter, Angela, organized 8 Picasso exhibitions from 1956 to 1971. In 1978, the Rosengarts donated 8 Picasso paintings to the city of Lucern to celebrate its 800th anniversary. Angela Rosengart has since donated their Picasso collection (along with classic modern works by Klee, Miró and others) to the Rosengart Foundation in Lucerne and built a museum to house the collection. Picasso's last lithograph is a portrait of Angela Rosengart, dated 1964 (Rueße 857).
With a letter of authentication from Maya Picasso, Paris .
