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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal | 117 | $****** - ****** | Magnéto anglaise |
Works on Paper
71.1 x 58.1 cm (28 x 22.88 in)
watercolour on paper
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right); titled 'MAGNÉTO ANGLAISE' (upper left)
Jacques Doucet, Paris, by whom acquired directly from the artist in 1922, until at least 1924.
Galerie Craven, Paris.
E.J. 'Ted' Power, London, by whom acquired from the above in 1959, until at least 1977.
Waddington Galleries, London, by 1988.
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Barcelona, Galeries Dalmau, Francis Picabia, November - December 1922, no. 44, p. 38.
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Francis Picabia, March 1964, no. 28 (illustrated; dated '1922'); this exhibition later travelled to London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, April 1964.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, André Breton: La beauté convulsive, April - August 1991, pp. 157 & 494 (illustrared p. 157); this exhibition later travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, October - December 1991, pp. 149 & 441 (illustrated p. 149).
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González, Francis Picabia, Máquinas y Españolas, October - December 1995, p. 101 (illustrated; dated '1922'); this exhibition later travelled to Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, December 1995 - March 1996.
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia: Galerie Dalmau, 1922, May - July 1996, no. 22, p. 69 (illustrated; dated '1922').
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Francis Picabia: Singulier idéal, November 2002 - March 2003, p. 249 (illustrated; dated '1922').
J. Lurçat, L'Esprit nouveau, 1924 (illustrated).
M. Sanouillet, Dada à Paris, Paris, 1965, p. 568.
O. Mohler, Francis Picabia, Turin, 1975, pp. 32 & 177 (illustrated p. 32).
F. Chapon, Mystère et splendeurs de Jacques Doucet, Paris, 1984, pp. 281-380.
M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 287, p. 514 (illustrated fig. 419, p. 255).
A. Pierre, 'Le dernier style machiniste de Francis Picabia', in exh. cat., Francis Picabia, galerie Dalmau, 1922, Paris, 1996, p. 36.
Exh. cat., Francis Picabia anthologia, Belén, 1997 (illustrated p. 47; dated '1922').
G. Baker, The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007, pp. 279-280 (illustrated p. 280; dated '1922').
W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements, A. Pierre & A. Verdier, Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, 1915-1927, Brussels, 2016, no. 751, p. 336 (illustrated).
↵↵signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right); titled 'MAGNÉTO ANGLAISE' (upper left)↵watercolour on paper↵28 x 22 7/8 in. (71 x 58 cm.)↵Executed in 1921-1922
