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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Francis Picabia

Tabarin

Auction Closed

June 26, 11:59 AM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Francis Picabia

1879 - 1953


Tabarin

signed Francis Picabia (lower left); titled (lower right)

oil on paper mounted on board

104.5 by 75.6 cm. 41⅛ by 29¾ in.

Framed: 138 by 109 cm. 54⅜ by 42⅞ in.

Executed circa 1937-38.

Estate of the artist

Gabriel François Martinez-Picabia (acquired by descent from the above in 1979)

Dr Jean Audouin, Paris

Dominique Kanga, Paris (acquired by 1984)

Sotheby's, New York, 16 February 1989, lot 152 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, USA (acquired from the above sale)

Marianne and Pierre Nahon, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris and Vence (acquired by 1991)

Private Collection, Europe (acquired on 18 October 1994)

Sotheby's, London, 20 June 2006, lot 383 (consigned by the above)

Sotheby's, New York, 29 June 2020, lot 111

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Palais des Congrès, Picabia. Dandy et Héraut de l’art du XXe siècle, 1980-81, no. 26, n.p., illustrated (dated 1935)

Brussels, Musée d'lxelles, Picabia, 1879-1953, 1983, no. 65, n.p., illustrated (dated 1935)

Tokyo, Museum of Modern Art and Seibu Takanawa, The Seibu Museum of Art, Francis Picabia, 1984, no. 57, n.p., illustrated (dated 1935 and catalogued as oil on cardboard)

Madrid, Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso del Ministerio de Cultura and Barcelona, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Francis Picabia, 1985, no. 115, illustrated in colour (dated 1935)

Nimes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Francis Picabia, 1986, no. 100, p. 150, illustrated (dated 1935 and catalogued as oil on cardboard)

Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Picabia et la Côte d'azur, 1991, no. 55, p. 89, illustrated in colour (dated 1935 and catalogued as oil on canvas)

Gijón, Palacio Revillagigedo, Picabia entre guerras, 1991, no. 46, illustrated in colour (dated 1935)

Antwerp, Ronny van de Velde, Francis Picabia, 1993, no. 39, illustrated in colour (dated 1935)

Montrouge, 39e Salon de Montrouge, Picabia et Montrouge-Barcelone, 1994, n.n., illustrated in colour

Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Rotterdam, Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Francis Picabia, The Late Works, 1933-1953, 1997-98, illustrated in colour (dated 1935)

Maria Lluisa Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 843, fig. 1069, p. 481, illustrated (titled French-cancan or Tabarin and dated circa 1946-47)

William Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements and Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, Brussels, 2019, no. 1428, p. 364, illustrated in colour; p. 365, detail illustrated in colour