FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Lot 111
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ID 717777
Lot 111 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
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FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Jeune fille

signed and dated 'Picabia 1912' (lower right); inscribed 'JEUNE FILLE' (upper left)

oil on canvas

39 3⁄8 x 31 7⁄8 in. (100 x 81 cm.)

Painted in 1912







Provenance

Thérèse Treize (née Maure), Paris, a gift from the artist and thence by descent; sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 133.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.





Literature

M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 121, p. 507 (illustrated fig. 230, p. 130).

A. Jouffroy, Picabia, Paris, 2002, p. 77 (illustrated; illustrated again n.p.).

G. Baker, The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris, Cambridge, 2007, p. 71.

W.A. Camfield, B. & P. Calté, C. Clements & A. Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1898-1914, New Haven & London, 2014, no. 441, p. 336 (illustrated).

G. Baker, 'The Body After Cubism', in Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, p. 41 (illustrated fig. 2).





Exhibited

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Francis Picabia, January - March 1976, no. 22, p. 4 (illustrated).

Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Francis Picabia, Antologia, June - August 1997, no. 10, p. 81 (illustrated).

Paris, Galerie Piltzer, Francis Picabia, September - October 1997 (no cat.).

Berlin, Galerie Brockstedt, Francis Picabia, October - November 1997, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Hamburg, Galerie Brockstedt, January - February 1998.

Vence, Galerie Beaubourg, Francis Picabia, July - October 1998, no. 71, p. 214 (illustrated p. 71).

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Francis Picabia, August - September 1999, no. 7, p. 57 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Fukushima, Iwaki City Art Museum, October - November 1999; and Osaka, The Museum of Art, Kintetsu, January - February 2000.





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