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Property from an Ambassadorial Collection

Francis Picabia

Sans titre

Session begins in

May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Bid

200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Ambassadorial Collection

Francis Picabia 

1879 - 1953


Sans titre 

signed Francis Picabia (lower left)

oil on board

17 ⅞ by 14 ⅞ in. 

45.4 by 37.8 cm. 

Executed circa 1940-42.

Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 13 June 1990, lot 90

Private Collection, Toulouse

Christie's East, New York, 7 November 1995, lot 164

Private Collection (acquired at the above sale)

Hauser & Wirth, Zurich (acquired from the above in 1996)

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2000)

Michael Werner Gallery, New York, London, Beverly Hills and Cologne

Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner

Zurich, Hauser & Wirth, Francis Picabia: Fleur de chair, fleurs d'âme. Nus, transparences, tableaux abstraits, 1997, p. 101, illustrated in color; p. 131

Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Picabia: The Late Work, 1997, p. 88, illustrated in color

William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements and Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné, Volume IV (1940-1953), Brussels, 2022, no. 1651, p. 210, illustrated in color