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IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART Specialists LONDON INDIA PHILLIPS HANNAH FOSTER THERENCE DE MATHAREL Head of Department Specialist Specialist BENEDETTA ALPINI CHRISTIANE GORZALKA Junior Specialist Junior Cataloguer NEW YORK WILLIAM O’REILLY TANYA WELLS ELENA RATCHEVA Head of Department Director Specialist 1 * AR MAX ERNST (1891-1976) Paysage de choix signed and inscribed ‘Paysage de choix - max ernst’ (on the artist’s mount) gouache on paper 8 x 10cm (3 1/8 x 3 15/16in). Executed circa 1953 £15,000 - 20,000 €21,000 - 28,000 US$23,000 - 31,000 Provenance Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf. Private collection, Opladen. Galerie Linssen, Bonn & Cologne. Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, by 1987. Anon. sale, Christie’s, London, 30 June 1987, lot 391. Exhibited Paris, Cercle des Arts, 1953. Cologne, Galerie der Spiegel, 1957. Literature W. Spies, Max Ernst, Oeuvre - Katalog: Werke 1939 - 1953, Cologne, 1987, no. 2995 (illustrated p. 348). This image relates to the collection of gouaches and oils illustrated in the book Sept microbes vus à travers un tempérament by Max Ernst published in Paris in 1953. 10 | BONHAMS IMPRESSIONIST & MODERN ART | 11 2 * AR PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973) Guéridon devant la fenêtre signed ‘Picasso’ (lower right) pencil on paper 27 x 21cm (10 5/8 x 8 1/4in). Executed in 1920 £70,000 - 100,000 €97,000 - 140,000 US$110,000 - 150,000 The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Monsieur Claude Picasso. Provenance Bucholz Gallery, New York. Bodley Gallery, New York. Curt Valentine, New York. Royal Marks Collection, New York. Anon. sale, Sotheby’s, London, 4 July 1962, lot 227. Private collection, Switzerland. Exhibited Bucholz Gallery, New York. Curt Valentine, New York. S.R. Roman, Winchester, Virginia. Cannes, La Malmaison, Picasso, Voyage dans l’amitié, 2003. Guéridon devant la fenêtre belongs to an important series of still lifes executed by Pablo Picasso between 1919 and 1920, which he commenced whilst vacationing in Saint-Raphaël with his first wife, the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova. This sequence of guéridons, or pedestal tables, were an immediate success, and many of them were selected for exhibition in the gallery of famed French collector Paul Rosenberg. This series would occupy Picasso for the next two years of his life, and it is unsurprising that over this extended period of time the artist re-worked his chosen subject in various media, including graphite, gouache and oil. The present work was drawn in 1920, by which time Picasso had long since returned to Paris. The artist clearly continued to explore the depiction of the guéridon (usually placed in front of a window and coupled with an assortment of objects such as glasses and guitars), despite the distance from his original source of inspiration: the flooding of the warm, Mediterranean light through the windows of the majestic Hôtel Continental et des Bains on the Côte d’Azur.