Picasso STILL LIFE IN TEMPERA, 1931

Size: 32 1/2” w x 26 1/2” h

From the estate of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock Availible at auction September 21, 2016

Monsieur Picasso and Mr. HitchcockA still life painting with a silver-screen connection.

The work from 1931 — a scene depicting a classical bust, wine bottle, fruit, and a window surrounded by a flourish of ironwork — is signed Picasso in the upper right. The back bears a faded label from its last exhibition: “‘Bonne Fête’ Monsieur Picasso,” at the UCLA Art Galleries, 1961, on the occasion of the modern master’s 80th birthday. It appears in the exhibition catalog — which featured loans from Hollywood notables Kirk Douglas, Vincent Price, and Mrs. Gary Cooper, as well as the Los Angeles Museum of Art — as number 95.

The painting, a tempera (gouache) on paper, measures19 5/8 x 25 ¾ inches, and its original owner was Alfred Hitchcock, who lent it to the UCLA exhibition. It came to Houston via the late director’s only child, daughter Pat Hitchcock O’Connell, who gifted it to her best friend, Georgia Waller, and her husband, Gerard Waller. It was bestowed upon them in 1982, after Hitchcock and his wife Alma had both passed on.

Mrs. Waller died in 2008, and Mr. Waller is now sending the painting with the Hollywood provenance to auction. (Hitchcock is known for employing artwork throughout his films to great effect; he also commissioned Dalí to create a dream sequence for his 1945 filmSpellbound.)

As featured and documented in 1961 at the “Bonne Fete” Monsieur Exhibition

Exhibition Catalog, comp. “Bonne Fete” Monsieure Exhibition. From Southern Californian Collectors October 25 - November 12: UCLA Art Gallaries, 1961. Print.

Reviewed by Christies’s Said to be worth over $750,000

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