A Portrait by Picasso from the Scheler Collection

Published on 27 January 2023, by Sophie Reyssat

Auction on 03 February 2023 - 14:30 (CET) - Salle 4 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

About 60 prints, paintings, drawings, books, autographs and objets d'art together with traditional African and Asian art from the collection of Lucie Scheler and her father Lucien are coming up for auction.

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Portrait de Nusch Éluard, ink wash, 1937, 44.5 x 28.7... A Portrait by Picasso from the Scheler Collection

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Portrait de Nusch Éluard, ink wash, 1937, 44.5 x 28.7 cm/17.52 x 11.30 in.
Estimate: €150,000/200,000
© SUCCESSION PICASSO, PARIS, ADAGP, 2023

Only part of Lucien Scheler’s collection was sold at auction on December 18 and 19, 2000 (Piasa, Hôtel Drouot). Scheler (1902–1999) was an erudite bookseller with a shop on rue de Tournon in Paris, a poet close to Paul Éluard, and an eminent…

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