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Property from an Ambassadorial Collection

Francis Picabia

Tête de femme

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May 20, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Bid

180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Ambassadorial Collection

Francis Picabia 

1879 - 1953


Tête de femme

signed Francis Picabia (lower right)

oil on board laid down on board

13 ¼ by 16 in. 

33.7 by 40.6 cm. 

Executed circa 1942-43.

Private Collection, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Private Collection, Le Plessis-Bouchard (acquired by descent from the above)

Private Collection 

Sotheby's, London, 6 February 2007, lot 540 (consigned by the above)

Michael Werner Gallery, New York, London, Beverly Hills and Cologne (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2015 by the present owner 

London, Michael Werner Gallery, 2008

William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements and Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné. Volume IV (1940-1953), Brussels, 2022, no. 1840, p. 288, illustrated in color