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Inv. n°: CL65

Le faune au manteau violet

Ownership passed to Gina Levett. Signed upper left in red: Picasso.

h. 65.5 x w. 50.5 cm
2 September 1946
Oil on papier marouflé

Provenance

  • Purchased directly from the artists by important and celebrated collector André Lefèvre, This artwork remained in André Lefèvre's personal collection untio it was presented at the Vente Palais Galliera after his death.
  • Palais Galliera, Collection André Lefèvre; Tableaux Modernes, Paris, November 29, 1966, lot 110
  • Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris, As early as 1972
  • Private Collection, Japan
  • Consigned by René Sindlev to Robilant + Voena, Milan, February 23, 2018
  • Acquired at Robilant Fine Art, London, 2018

Publications

  • Huré (ed.), Collection André Lefèvre, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Mars-Avril 1964, Ministère des Affaires Culturelles, Paris, 1964, p. 34, no. 235
  • Collection André Lefèvre, tableaux modernes: estampes originales (...) papiers collés, gouaches, pastels, aquarelles, dessins (...), Vente Palais Galliera, Paris, November 29, 1966, no. 110
  • Musée Picasso, Press kit: Les vacances de M. Pablo, Picasso à Antibes Juan-les-Pins 1920-1946, Antibes, , p. 14 and p. 19

Exhibitions

  • Collection André Lefèvre, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
  • Collection André Lefèvre, tableaux modernes: estampes originales (...) papiers collés, gouaches, pastels, aquarelles, dessins (...), Palais Galliera, Paris, France
  • TEFAF Maastricht, Robilant Voena
  • Les vacances de M. Pablo, Picasso à Antibes Juan-les-Pins 1920-1946, Musée Picasso, Antibes, France, September 29, 2018 — January 13, 2019
  • Musée Picasso, Antibes, France, January 14, 2019 — January 12, 2020
  • Musée d'Art classique de Mougins, Mougins, France, January 13, 2020 — May 31, 2020

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