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Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)

Le Transformateur



By the late 1940s, Picasso's fame was widespread and he was the confirmed master of Western art. In 1948 Picasso had acquired his own villa, La Galloise, near the southern French village of Vallauris. He was working and living full time with his partner Françoise Gilot and their two children, Claude and Paloma and a time of success, contentment and stability in his family life set in.

He continued to paint and draw obsessively,...



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  Lot 38 of 73  

IMPRESSIONIST AND MODERN ART AUCTION
15-16 FEBRUARY 2012

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Pablo Picasso
Le Transformateur

Signed 'Picasso' (lower right) and dated '10 Juin 53' (upper left)
1953
Oil on canvas
8.5 x 10.5 in (21.6 x 26.7 cm)

PROVENANCE:
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
Herman C. Goldsmith, New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1983)

PUBLISHED:
Christian Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Oeuvres de 1946 à 1953, Paris, 1965, vol. XV, no. 273, illustrated p. 150
The Picasso Project, Picasso's Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture. The Fifties I, 1950-1955, San Francisco, 2002, no. 53-035, illustrated p. 118

Category: Painting
Style: Landscape


 









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