Pablo PICASSO

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300000 - 400000 EUR
Pablo PICASSO
Pablo PICASSO (1881-1973) - Woman brushing her hair - Bronze sculpture with brown patina C. Valsuani founder H: 42,2; L: 31,8; P: 26 - Proof 1968 - Certificate of the Picasso Committee - Referenced in the catalogue W.Spies under number 7 II  Provenance: Mr. Pellequer Paris Mr. Sokolowski Paris Mrs. Demeurisse Paris  Private collection, Paris   Note:  "In the autumn of 1904, Picasso met Fernande Olivier who was soon to move into her workshop at the Bateau-Lavoir in Montmartre and share her life for several years. The female figure, whether painted, sculpted or drawn, then took on the regular features of this muse and model. A new reflection emerged on the representation of the naked body, a theme that Picasso made his favourite subject during a trip to Gosol, a small mountain village near Andorra, where he stayed from May to August 1906. On his return to Paris, he undertook a sculpture representing a kneeling woman painting her long hair, based on an original ceramic fired in the kiln of the studio of Paco Durrio, a ceramist and friend of Picasso. » Source: Mrs Virginie Perdrisot, Heritage Curator, Musée national Picasso - Paris, February 2014   The ceramics were preserved by Picasso, who then offered them to Raoul Pellequer. In 1968, Raoul Pellequer, with Picasso's permission, asked the Valsuani Foundry to make twelve bronze copies.  Litterature :  A. Level, Picasso, Paris, 1928, p. 58, no. 55 (un autre exemplaire illustré; daté 1904). C. Zervos, Pablo Picasso, Paris, 1957, vol. I, no. 329 (un autre exemplaire illustré, pl. 153; titré 'La Coiffure' et daté 1905). W. Spies, Sculpture by Picasso, with a catalogue of works, New York, 1971, p. 301, no. 7 (un autre exemplaire illustré, p. 37). R. Penrose et J. Golding, éds., Picasso in retrospect, New York, 1973, p. 277, no. 199 (un autre exemplaire illustré en couleurs, p. 123). U.E. Johnson, Ambroise Vollar