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FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Lot 113
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ID 1380184
Lot 113 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Le rêve de Susanne
signed, dated and inscribed ‘Francis Picabia 1949 LE RÊVE DE SUSANNE’ (along the lower edge)
oil on board
29 3/8 x 20 ½ in. (74.6 x 52 cm.)
Painted in 1949




Provenance

Jean Van Heeckeren, Paris.
Galerie Jacques Tronche, Paris; sale, Christie’s, London, 5 April 1968, lot 166.
Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne.
J.K. Sercarz, Cologne, by 1976.
Private collection, Europe, a gift from the above.



Literature

F. Reijnders, Della pittura: De schilderkunst en andere media, Amsterdam, 2000, pp. 58 & 59 (illustrated).
C. Boulbès, Picabia avec Nietzsche, Lettres d'amour à Suzanne Romain (1944-1948), Paris, 2010, no. 20, pp. 369 & 373 (illustrated).
M. Duffy, T. Kwartler, N. Dupêcher & A. Umland, eds., Francis Picabia: Materials and Techniques, London, 2017, pp. 67 & 72 (illustrated fig. 17, p. 72).
W. A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements & A. Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue Raisonné, vol. IV, 1940-1953, New Haven & London, 2022, no. 2029, pp. 397 & 398 (illustrated p. 398).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, 50 ans de plaisirs, March 1949, no. 134.
Antwerp, Ronny Van de Velde Gallery, Francis Picabia, February - April 1993, no. 53 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Mallorca, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, May - June 1993, no. 79.
Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Francis Picabia - Antologia, June - August 1997, no. 115, p. 186 (illustrated).
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Francis Picabia – The Late Works, 1933-1953, October 1997 – February 1998, p. 134 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, February - June 1998.
Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble, Francis Picabia, les nus et la méthode, October 1998 - January 1999, no. 39, pp. 97 & 104 (illustrated p. 96); this exhibition later travelled to Geneva, Musée du Petit Palais, January - April 1999.
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Francis Picabia, August - September 1999, no. 76, p. 136 (illustrated p. 137); this exhibition later travelled to Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum, October - November 1999 and Osaka, Museum of Art, January - February 2000.
Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Francis Picabia, Singulier idéal, November 2002 - March 2003, p. 404 (illustrated p. 405).
London, Camden Arts Centre, Francis Picabia, November 2004 - February 2005, no. 7.
London, Hauser & Wirth, Francis Picabia, The Nudes, October - November 2006.
Herford, MARTa Herford, Ad absurdum: Energies of the Absurd from Modernity to Contemporary Art, April - July 2008, p. 455 (illustrated p. 457).
Ostend, Mu.ZEE, L'autoportrait, la maison et les saisons, September 2011 - January 2012.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, June - September 2016, pp. 248 & 358 (illustrated pl. 216, p. 263).
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