LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and gouache on card laid down on board

Measurements:

26.77 in. (68.00 cm.) (height) by 19.96 in. (50.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

Signed Picabia (lower left)

Exhibited:

Seibu Takanawa, The Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Francis Picabia, 1984, no. 25, illustrated in color in the catalogue Belém, Centro cultural de Belém, Francis Picabia anthologia, 1997, no. 28, illustrated in color in the catalogue Okazaki, Mindscape Museum; Osaka, Musée d’Art de Kintetsu & Musée Municipal d’Art de Kitakyushu, Les Maîtres du Surréalisme: Explorateurs de l’inconscient, 1998, no. 7, illustrated in color in the catalogue London, Royal Academy of Arts & Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Paris: Capital of the Arts 1900-1968, 2002, no. 56, illustrated in color in the catalogue Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Francis Picabia, Singulier idéal, 2002-03, no. 196, illustrated in color in the catalogue London, Tate Modern & Barcelona, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, 2008, no. 29, illustrated in color in the catalogue Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Gli anni folli: La Parigi di Modigliani, Picasso e Dalí, 1918-1933, 2011-12; no. 73, illustrated in color in the catalogue Krems, Kunsthalle, Francis Picabia, 2012, no. 41, illustrated in color in the catalogue

Literature:

William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia, His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, p. 131, illustrated fig. 172

Provenance:

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York (acquired by 1962) René Withoffs, Belgium (acquired from the above August 30, 1965) Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired by 1972) Acquired from the above by the present owners