FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Lot 8
18.05.2023 01:00UTC -05:00
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$ 1 000 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949332
Lot 8 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 1 500 000
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Sans titre

signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right)

oil on board

29 5/8 x 23 in. (75.3 x 58.5 cm.)

Painted circa 1940-1942





Provenance

Michael Werner Gallery, New York.

Mary Boone Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1983).

David Salle, New York (acquired from the above, 1983).

Diego Cortez Arte, Ltd., New York (acquired from the above, November 1987).

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1 December 1987.



Literature

A. Umland and C. Hug, Francis Picabia: Our Heads are Round So our Thoughts Can Change Direction, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, p. 307 (illustrated in color, fig. 9; titled Portrait de Viviane Romance and dated 1939).

W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements and A. Pierre, Francis Picabia: Catalogue raisonné, 1940-1953, Paris, 2022, vol. IV, p. 210, no. 1650 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Francis Picabia, September-October 1983.
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