Anne H. Bass was a leading philanthropist and a generous patron of the arts, known for her expert eye and unparalleled connoisseurship. Spanning the best of modern and contemporary art, masterpieces from her collection by Rothko, Monet and Degas have graced Christie’s auction block in recent years during our 20th and 21st Century Art auction series.

Now, from The Collection of Anne H. Bass comes an exceptional work by Pablo Picasso, offered in our 20th Century Evening Sale in New York this November. A meditation on artmaking itself, Picasso’s 1925 La leçon de dessin features the artist’s four-year-old son, Paul, as he learns to draw. Painted by a father nostalgic for his own youth, it captures the beauty of the world seen through a child’s eyes. Discover this tender, complex portrait during 20th/21st Century at Christie’s New York.