Lot 230
  • 230

Francis Picabia

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Francis Picabia
  • Portrait de Camille Pissarro
  • Signed Francis Picabia and inscribed 1903 (lower right); inscribed Camille Pissarro (upper left) 
  • Charcoal on paper
  • 19 3/4 by 12 3/4 in.
  • 50.2 by 32.4 cm

Provenance

William H. Schab Gallery, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner's father in 1991

Condition

Good condition; backed with Japan paper; hinged at top 2 corners; a few small repairs at lower edge; a few slight dots of foxing on reverse; sheet time darkened overall
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Catalogue Note

According to Picabia's letters to Germaine Everling around 1949-50, we learn that the artist later did a large-scale version of this drawing for the Côte d'Azur market (M.L. Borràs, Picabia, Spain, 1985, p. 503).