ID 1163998
Lot 107 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Estimate value
£ 2 200 000 – 2 800 000
Veglione
signed ‘Francis Picabia’ (lower right)
Ripolin and oil on canvas
36 1⁄8 x 28 7⁄8 in. (91.9 x 73.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1924-1925
Provenance
Tableaux, Aquarelles et Dessins par Francis Picabia Appartenant à M. Marcel Duchamp, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1926, lot 75.
Hugues Simon, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
(Probably) Simone Collinet-Breton, Paris.
Robert Lebel, Paris, by 1959, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Literature
M.-L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 387, pp. 288, 289, 296, 302 & 518 (illustrated pl. 548, p. 302).
J. Pierre, ‘Francis Picabia et le surréalisme’, in Pleine Marge, no. 26, Paris, December 1997, p. 144 (illustrated).
W. A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements, A. Pierre & A. Verdier, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1915-1927, Brussels, 2016, no. 857, p. 379 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., Picasso, Picabia, La peinture au défi, Aix-en-Provence, 2018, p. 55 (illustrated fig. 1).
Exhibited
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe, Malarstwo francuskie od Gauguina do dnia dzisiejszego, April – May 1959, no. 124, p. 32 (illustrated; titled ‘Bal’).
London, Matthiesen Gallery, Francis Picabia, October – November 1959, no. 39.
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Picabia, March – May 1962, no. 46.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surréalisme, sources, histoire, affinités, 1964, no. 256.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Dada, Auesstellung zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum, October – November 1966, no. 219, p. 86; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, November 1966 – January 1967.
Strasbourg, L'Ancienne Douane, L’art en Europe autour de 1925, May – September 1970, no. 166, p. 170.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia: Portrait de l'Auteur par lui-même, January – March 1976, no. 152, p. 188 (illustrated p. 136).
Paris, Artcurial, Au temps du “Bœuf sur le Toit”, 1918-1928, May – July 1981, no. 185, p. 111 (illustrated p. 57; dated 'circa 1924').
| Artist: | Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) |
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| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) |
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| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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