
Le Torrent
Auction Closed
March 7, 03:05 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Francis Picabia
1879 - 1953
Le Torrent
oil on canvas
73 by 92.1 cm. 28 ¾ by 36 ¼ in.
Framed: 83.8 by 104 cm. 33 ½ by 41 in.
Executed circa 1911.
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 31 May 1926, lot 97
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 May 1948, lot 136
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17 December 1962, lot 77
Private Collection, Paris
Artcurial, Paris, 17 December 2001, lot 17 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 2017, lot 302 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above)
(possibly) Paris, Salon d'automne or Exposition d'art contemporain, 1911 (titled Jardin)
Olga Mohler Picabia, Francis Picabia, Turin, 1975, p. 8, illustrated in a photograph of the artist's studio
Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'art moderne, Francis Picabia, 1976, p. 59, illustrated
William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia, His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, pl. 48, illustrated (titled Landscape)
Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Paris, 1985, no. 223, p. 126; p. 128, illustrated
William A. Camfield, Beverly Calté, Candace Clements, Arnaud Pierre and Pierre Calté, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, New Haven, 2014, no. 426, pp. 322-23, illustrated in colour