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PABLO PICASSO
Octavio Canals, Dompteur de Chats
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Pen and dark brown ink and wash on light tan wove paper, circa 1903. 210x137 mm;
8
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4
x5
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2
inches. Signed and titled in ink, recto.
Picasso’s famous portrait of his friend’s wife, fellow artist Ricardo Canals,
Portrait Mme. Canals
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oil, 1905, is now in the Museu Picasso, Barcelona (Zervos 263). This is a sketch Picasso
made of the artist’s son, Octavio, playing with a pet cat.
With a photograph authentication by Maya Picasso, Paris, dated April 19, 2011.
[15,000/20,000]