FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Lot 349
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Lot 349 | FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Untitled

signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right)

oil on cardboard

23 7/8 x 19 1/2 in. (60.5 x 49.5 cm.)

Painted circa 1942-1943





Provenance

Anonymous sale, Palais Galliera, Paris, 18 June 1971, lot 93.

Galerie Jade, Colmar, by 1981.

Private collection, by whom acquired from the above; sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 June 2001, lot 283.

Galerie Haas, Berlin, by whom acquired at the above sale.

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001.



Literature

M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 783, p. 532 (illustrated fig. 959, p. 440; titled 'Portrait of a Little Girl' and catalogued as 'oil on wood').

W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements & A. Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. IV, 1940-1953, New Haven & London, 2022, no. 1825, p. 284 (illustrated p. 285).



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