FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Lot 658
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Lot 658 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
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$ 300 000 – 500 000
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Poète espagnol

signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left)

oil on canvas

36 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. (91.8 x 73 cm.)

Painted circa 1938-1939





Provenance

Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, Paris (by 1949).

William N. Copley, New York and Longpont-sur-Orge, France (acquired from the above, 1957); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 5 November 1979, lot 10.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owners.



Literature

C. Clements, “Ce que j’aime peindre! Retour sur les dernières oeuvres de Picabia,” Les cahiers du musée national d’art moderne, no. 124, summer 2013, p. 91 (illustrated, p. 89).

B. Calté, W.A. Camfield, C. Clements and A. Pierre, Francis Picabia: Catalogue raisonné, 1927-1939, Brussels, 2019, vol. III, p. 406, no. 1554 (illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Francis Picabia: 50 ans de plaisirs, March 1949, no. 66 (dated 1935).

Besançon, Palais Granvelle, Festival artistique: Surréalisme et précurseurs, 1961, p. 44, no. 122 (illustrated, pl. XIII).
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