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Property from an Important Private Collector

Francis Picabia

Le Torrent

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:26 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from an Important Private Collector

Francis Picabia

1879 - 1953

Le Torrent


oil on canvas

28¾ by 36¼ in.

73 by 92.1 cm.

Executed circa 1911.

Hôtel Drouot Paris, 31 May 1926, lot 97
Hôtel Drouot Paris, 26 May 1948, lot 136
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

(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 & Pierre Calté, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné, vol. I, New Haven, 2014, no. 426, pp. 322-23, illustrated in color