Lot 407
  • 407

Francis Picabia

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Francis Picabia
  • (Sans titre) Portrait de femme
  • signed Francis Picabia (lower right)
  • watercolour, gouache, wash and pencil on paper
  • 64 by 50cm., 25 1/4 by 19 3/4 in.

Provenance

Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona
Private Collection, Spain (sale: Sotheby's, Olympia, 15th March 2007, lot 90)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona & Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia. Màquines i espanyoles, 1995-96

Condition

Executed on cream wove paper, not laid down and affixed with tape to the overmount at the centre of the left and right edges. The sheet is lightly time-stained and there are scattered spots of foxing throughout. There are two artist's pinholes to the upper right corner. There is a spot of light surface abrasion and a flattened crease towards the upper part of the left edge and a tiny tear to the lower part of the left edge, neither visible when framed. This work is in overall good condition.
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