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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 17, 2017 | Sotheby's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Art Day Sale | 303 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | BROYEUR | ||
Jun 24, 2002 | Phillips | London | Impressionist & Modern Art | 15 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Broyeur |
Works on Paper
59.8 x 72.7 cm (23.54 x 28.62 in)
Watercolor, brush and ink and pencil on paper laid down on card
Signed Francis Picabia (lower right), titled (upper left)
Galerie Mona Lisa, Paris (acquired by 1962)
Marcel Duhamel, London (acquired by 1972)
Private Collection (and sold: Sotheby's, London, December 1, 1976, lot 198)
Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano (acquired at the above sale and sold: Phillips, De Pury & Luxembourg, London, June 24, 2002, lot 15)
Helly Nahmad Gallery, London
Claude Berri, Paris (acquired from the above)
Thence by descent
Barcelona, Galería Dalmau, Picabia, 1922, no. 13
Paris, Galerie Mona Lisa, Francis Picabia vu en transparence, 1961, no. 16a
Marseilles, Musée Cantini, Picabia, 1962, no. 40, illustrated in the catalogue
Munich, Haus der Kunst, Der Surrealismus 1922-1942, 1972, no. 378, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Musée des arts décoratifs, Le Surréalisme 1922-1942, 1972, no. 363, illustrated in the catalogue
Paris, Grand Palais, Francis Picabia, 1976, no. 105, illustrated in the catalogue
Nîmes, Musée des beaux-arts, Francis Picabia, 1986, no. 37, illustrated in the catalogue
Luxembourg, Villa Vaubon; Munich, Haus der Kunst & Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Wege aus Abstraktion: 80 Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1988-89, no. 59, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Valencia, IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez; Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies & Paris, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Maquinas y Españolas, 1995-96, no. 7, illustrated in color in the catalogue
Maria Llüisa Boras, Picabia, Barcelona, 1985, no. 293, illustrated in color p. 260
Christopher Green, The European Avant-Gardes, Art in France and Western Europe 1904-c. 1945, London, 1995, no. 69, illustrated in color p. 364
Arnauld Pierre, "Sources inédites pour l'oeuvre machiniste de Francis Picabia, 1918-1922" in Bulletin de la société de l'histoire de l'art français, Paris, 1992, illustrated pp. 270-71
William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements, Arnauld Pierre & Pierre Calté, Francis Picabia, Catalogue Raisonné, 1915-1927, vol. II, New Haven & London, 2016, no. 735, illustrated in color p. 328
Signed Francis Picabia (lower right); titled (upper left)
Watercolor, brush and ink and pencil on paper laid down on card
23 1/2 by 28 5/8 in.
59.8 by 72.7 cm
Executed in 1922.
