Lot 236
  • 236

Francis Picabia

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Francis Picabia
  • Espagnole
  • signed F. Picabia and dated 1902 (lower right)
  • watercolour, brush and ink and pencil on paper
  • 50 by 37.5cm., 19¾ by 14¾in.

Provenance

Sale: Sotheby's, London, 20th June 2007, lot 153
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Reina Sofía, La noche española. Flamenco, vanguardia y cultura popular 1865-1936, 2007-08

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down, attached to the mount intermittently along all four edges. The sheet is time-stained and there are tape remnant marks to parts of all four extreme edges. There are two vertical approximately 2.5cm-long tears to the lower edge. There is some general wear to the lower edge and artist's pinholes to all four corners. There are a few scattered minor foxing marks and fly spots. This work is in overall fairly good condition.
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