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a striking picasso Picture ready to go under the hammer Paris This Friday, it remained invisible for more than eight decades.
live artwork, title Statue of a woman with a flowered hat (Dora Maar)Pictured in July 1943.
It depicts Picasso’s longtime lover and companion – an accomplished artist and photographer in her own right – in a brightly colored hat.
The painting was acquired in 1944 and has since been housed in a private family collection, never to appear on the market again until now.
The Druitt auction houseWhere the sale will take place has hailed the re-emergence of the piece – part of Picasso’s famous “Woman in a Hat” series – as “a moment of rare significance, revealing for the first time the full brilliance of a work long kept secret”.
At a preview this week, Picasso expert Agnes Sevestre-Barbe was amazed at how lifelike the painting remains.
“We have a painting that is exactly as it was when it left the studio,” he said.
“It wasn’t varnished, which means we had all the raw material, everything. It’s a painting where you can feel all the colors, the whole chromatic range.
He added, “It’s a painting that speaks volumes for itself.” “You just have to look at it – it’s full of expression, and you can see all the genius of Picasso.”
Previously, the work had only been seen in a black-and-white photograph, Ms. Sevestre-Barbe said.
“We couldn’t imagine from this photo that this painting really was so colorful, so wonderful.”
Auctioneer Christophe Lucien said the work was the subject of great interest around the world.
“With a strong art market it is being talked about in all the capitals of the world United States of America To AsiaAnd of course through all the major European markets,” he said, declining to give a final sales estimate.