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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2025 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Day and Works on Paper Sale | 493 | $****** - ****** | Fixe |
Works on Paper
59.4 x 71.8 cm (23.38 x 28.25 in)
brush and India ink and pencil on paper laid down on board
signed "Francis Picabia" (lower right); inscribed "FIXE" (upper centre)
Tableaux, Aquarelles et Dessins par Francis Picabia Appartenant à M. Marcel Duchamp , Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1926, lot 71.
Serge Romoff, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
Galleria La Medusa, Rome, by 1968.
Private collection, Turin, by whom acquired from the above, by 1974, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Barcelona, Galeries Dalmau, Francis Picabia , November - December 1922, no. 12, p. 37 (illustrated p. 31).
Turin, Galleria Notizie, Leger, Tanguy, Picabia, Herbin, Miró, Soldati, Fontana, Burri, De Chirico, Kandinsky, Magritte, Melotti, Balla, Brauner, Ernst..., October - November 1968 (illustrated p. 4; dated "1921" and with incorrect dimensions).
Turin, Galleria Notizie, Picabia, opere dal 1917 al 1950 , October - November 1969, p. 2 (illustrated p. 6; dated "1921" and with incorrect dimensions).
Turin, Galleria Civica d"Arte Moderna, Francis Picabia: mezzo secolo di avanguardia , November 1974 - February 1975, no. 36, n.p. (illustrated n.p.; with incorrect dimensions).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Francis Picabia , January - March 1976, no. 104, pp. 110 & 187 (illustrated p. 111; dated "1921-1922"; with incorrect medium and dimensions).
Paris, Centre national d"art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris - Moscou 1900-1930 , May - November 1979, pp. 196 & 528 (detail illustrated p. 196; dated "1921"; with incorrect medium and dimensions).
W.A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times , Princeton, 1979, no. 219, pp. 191-192 (illustrated n.p.; with incorrect medium).
M.-L. Borràs, Picabia , London, 1985, no. 280, pp. 237, 252 & 514 (illustrated p. 252; dated "1921-1922"; with incorrect medium and dimensions).
A. de La Beaumelle, "Picabia Kaléidoscope, 1922", in Francis Picabia: Galerie Dalmau, 1922 , exh. cat., Musée national d"art moderne, Paris, 1996, pp. 13-14 (illustrated p. 14; with incorrect medium and dimensions).
J.-J. Lebel, "Picabia, 1922, ready-made empêché", in Francis Picabia: Galerie Dalmau, 1922 , exh. cat., Musée national d"art moderne, Paris, 1996, pp. 26-27.
W.A. Camfield, B. & P. Calté, C. Clements, A. Pierre & A. Verdier, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné , vol. II, 1915-1927 , Brussels, 2016, no. 734, p. 327 (illustrated p. 326; with incorrect medium and dimensions).
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Fixe
signed "Francis Picabia" (lower right); inscribed "FIXE" (upper centre)
brush and India ink and pencil on paper laid down on board
23 3/8 x 28 ¼ in. (59.3 x 71.6 cm.)
Executed in 1922
