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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)

PABLO PICASSO

(1881-1973)

Trois hommes debout

signed and dated “27.12.66.I Picasso” (upper left)

pencil on paper

54.6 x 45.7 cm (211⁄2 x 18 in.)

drawn in 1966

Estimate: £48,000–60,000

$70,000–90,000





Provenance

Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris (acquired from the artist)

The Waddington Galleries, London

Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner on April 24, 1973




Literature

Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1983, vol. 25

(Oeuvres de 1965 à 1967), no. 247 (illustrated, pl. 116)

Charles Feld, Picasso: His Recent Drawings, 1966-1968,

New York, 1969, no. 38




On December 27, 1966 Picasso executed a remarkable group of drawings (Zervos vol. 25, nos. 242, 244, 245, 248 and 259). The present work is the most refined and classical, reminding the viewer of Picasso’s Neo-Classical drawings of the 1920s.