Pablo Picasso - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Tuesday, May 16, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris
    Rago Arts & Auctions, June 2012, lot 418
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Literature

    Georges Ramié, Picasso's Ceramics, New York, 1976, no. 376, p. 163, 287 (illustrated, p. 163)

  • Artist Biography

    Pablo Picasso

    Spanish • 1881 - 1973

    One of the most dominant and influential artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso was a master of endless reinvention. While significantly contributing to the movements of Surrealism, Neoclassicism and Expressionism, he is best known for pioneering the groundbreaking movement of Cubism alongside fellow artist Georges Braque in the 1910s. In his practice, he drew on African and Iberian visual culture as well as the developments in the fast-changing world around him.

    Throughout his long and prolific career, the Spanish-born artist consistently pushed the boundaries of art to new extremes. Picasso's oeuvre is famously characterized by a radical diversity of styles, ranging from his early forays in Cubism to his Classical Period and his later more gestural expressionist work, and a diverse array of media including printmaking, drawing, ceramics and sculpture as well as theater sets and costumes designs. 

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Head of a Boy

dated "8.8.56" upper left; signed "Picasso" on the reverse
painted and glazed ceramic
12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm)
Executed on August 8, 1956, this work is unique.

Estimate
$60,000 - 90,000 

Sold for $107,950

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 16 May 2023