FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Lot 315
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Lot 315 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
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FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Paysage à Cassis

signed 'Picabia' (lower right)

oil on canvas

20 x 24 1⁄8 in. (50.2 x 61.5 cm.)

Painted circa 1909-1910





Provenance

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1926, lot 5.

Morain, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Mr. & Mrs. Neil Reisner, Scarsdale, from 1962 until 1981.

Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 12 May 1987, lot 333.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

G. Apollinaire, Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations esthétiques, Paris, 1913, no. 32 (illustrated; dated '1909').

V. Spate, Orphism, The Evolution of Non-Figurative Painting in Paris 1910-1914, Oxford, 1979, pp. 283-284 (illustrated pl. 212, p. 284; dated 'circa 1909').

M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 94, p. 506 (illustrated fig. 205, p. 120).

W. A. Camfield, Francis Picabia, His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, no. 34, p. 326 (illustrated).

W. A. Camfield, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1898-1914, Paris, 2014, no. 402, p. 308 (illustrated).

A. Ensabella, 'Marcel Duchamp, «homme de paille» ou stratège ? La vente des quatre-vingts tableaux de Francis Picabia à l'Hôtel Drouot le 8 mars 1926', in J. Drost, F. Flahutez & M. Schieder (eds.), Le surréalisme et l'argent, Heidelberg, 2021, no. 5, p. 110.



Exhibited

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Francis Picabia, A Retrospective Exhibition, September - December 1970, no. 14, p. 59 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Cincinnati, Art Museum, January - February 1971; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, February - April 1971 and Detroit, Institute of Arts, May - June 1971.
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