ID 717774
Lot 114 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
Tête de faune
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 7⁄8 x 18 1⁄8 in. (55.5 x 46 cm.)
Painted circa 1934-1935
Provenance
Germaine Everling, Cannes; her sale, Villa Robioni, Nice, 28 December 1956, lot 4.
Galerie Serguy, Cannes & Paris.
Margaret Krebs, Brussels.
Private collection.
Literature
Y.A. Bois, Picabia, Paris, 1975, p. 99 (illustrated p. 86).
M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 740, p. 530 (illustrated fig. 990, p. 444; dated 'circa 1940-1941').
W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements & A. Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1927-1939, New Haven & London, 2019, no. 1289, p. 304 (illustrated).
Exhibited
La Napoule, Château Historique, Henry Clews Art Foundation, Exposition Picabia, Les artistes au soleil et Jean-Gabriel Domergue, September - October 1956, no. 11.
Mechelen, Cultureel Centrum Burgemeester Antoon Spinoy, Kunst in Europa 1920-1960, een confrontatie, September - November 1976, no. 126, p. 22 (dated '1927').
Special Notice
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.
| Artist: | Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Artist: | Francis Picabia (1879 - 1953) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil, Painted |
| Art style: | Surrealism |
| Genre: | Mythological painting |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Address of auction |
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