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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sep 17, 2025 | Sotheby's | London | Pauline Karpidas: The London Collection Evening Auction | 44 | $****** - ****** | Homme et femme au bord de la mer | |||
May 22, 1997 | Finarte Casa d'Aste | Milan | Modern & Contemporary Art | 68 | $****** - ****** | Homme et femme au bord de la mer |
paintings
116 x 89.1 cm (45.67 x 35.08 in)
oil and Ripolin on canvas
signed Francis Picabia and dated 1935 (lower left)
Galleria Notizie, Turin (acquired by 1969)
Ippolito Simonis, Turin (acquired by 1983)
Finarte, Milan, 22 May 1997, lot 68
Marcel and David Fleiss (Galerie 1900-2000), Paris
Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne (acquired from the above in 1998)
Acquired from the above on 12 June 2002 by the present owner
The Arts Club of Chicago, Paintings by Francis Picabia, 1936, no. 9
Turin, Galleria Notizie, Picabia, opere dal 1917 al 1950, 1969, n.n., p. 6, illustrated in colour
Turin, Galleria civica d"arte moderna, Francis Picabia: Mezzo secolo di avanguardia, 1974-75, no. 67, n.p., illustrated
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Francis Picabia, 1976, no. 202, p. 163, illustrated
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunsthaus Zürich and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Francis Picabia, 1983-84, no. 111, p. 22, illustrated in colour
New York, Michael Werner, Francis Picabia: Late Paintings 2000, no. 19, n.p., illustrated in colour
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Late works of Francis Picabia, 2000, n.p., illustrated in colour
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthaus Zürich, Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction, 2016-17, p. 209; p. 214, pl. 172, illustrated in colour; n.p., detail illustrated in colour
William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia, His Art, Life and Time , Princeton, 1979, no. 362, n.p., illustrated
Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia , London, 1985, no. 821, p. 403, illustrated in colour
Exh. Cat., Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Francis Picabia, Das Spätwerk, 1993-1953 , 1997-98, p. 11
Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia: La Peinture sans aura , Paris, 2002, fig. 101, p. 237, illustrated.
Didier Ottinger, Francis Picabia dans le collections du Centre Pompidou, Musée National d"Art Moderne , 2003, p. 79, illustrated
William A. Camfield, Beverly Calté, Candace Clements and Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonn é , 1927-1939 , vol. III, New Haven and London, 2019, no. 1313, p. 314, illustrated in colour
Francis Picabia
1879 - 1953
Homme et femme au bord de la mer
signed Francis Picabia and dated 1935 (lower left)
oil and Ripolin on canvas
116 by 89.1 cm. 45¾ by 35⅛ in.
Executed in 1935.
