Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private European Collection
Francis Picabia
Le Mexicain
Auction Closed
June 30, 02:45 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Distinguished Private European Collection
Francis Picabia
1879 - 1953
Le Mexicain
signed Francis Picabia (lower left)
oil on panel
109.9 by 100.3cm., 43¼ by 39½in.
Framed: 133.7 by 124.5cm., 52⅝ by 49in.
Painted circa 1937.
Suzanne Romain, Paris & Nice (the artist's lover; a gift from the artist before 1953 and until 1990)
Didier Imbert Fine Art, Paris (acquired by 1991)
Sale: Christie’s, South Kensington, 30th June 2000, lot 128
Sale: Sotheby’s, London, 24th June 2003, lot 202
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Barcelona, 1985, no. 877, illustrated in colour p. 413 (titled Le petit Mexicain & with incorrect medium)
Olga Mohler Picabia, Album Picabia, Turin, 1975, illustrated in photographs of the artist's studio pp. 105 & 106
William A. Camfield, Beverly Calté, Candace Clements, Arnaud Pierre & Pierre Calté, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné, vol. III, New Haven & London, 2019, no. 1411, illustrated in color p. 356