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Francis Picabia

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.

Please note that the work is not signed on the reverse. Please see the online catalogue for the most up to date cataloguing.

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