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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 7, 2024 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 107 | $****** - ****** | Veglione |
paintings
91.8 x 73.3 cm (36.13 x 28.88 in)
Ripolin and oil on canvas
signed ‘Francis Picabia" (lower right)
Tableaux, Aquarelles et Dessin s par Francis Picabia Appartenant à M. Marcel Duchamp , Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 March 1926, lot 75.
Hugues Simon, Paris, by whom acquired at the above sale.
(Probably) Simone Collinet-Breton, Paris.
Robert Lebel, Paris, by 1959, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe, Malarstwo francuskie od Gauguina do dnia dzisiejszego , April - May 1959, no. 124, p. 32 (illustrated; titled ‘Bal").
London, Matthiesen Gallery, Francis Picabia , October - November 1959, no. 39.
Marseille, Musée Cantini, Picabia , March - May 1962, no. 46.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Le Surr é alisme, sources, histoire, affinit é s , 1964, no. 256.
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Dada, Auesstellung zum 50-j ä hrigen Jubil ä um , October - November 1966, no. 219, p. 86; this exhibition later travelled to Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, November 1966 - January 1967.
Strasbourg, L"Ancienne Douane, L " art en Europe autour de 1925 , May - September 1970, no. 166, p. 170.
Paris, Musée National d"Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia: Portrait de l"Auteur par lui-m ême, January - March 1976, no. 152, p. 188 (illustrated p. 136).
Paris, Artcurial, Au temps du “Bœuf sur le Toit” , 1918-1928 , May - July 1981, no. 185, p. 111 (illustrated p. 57; dated " circa 1924").
M.-L. Borràs, Picabia , London, 1985, no. 387, pp. 288, 289, 296, 302 & 518 (illustrated pl. 548, p. 302).
J. Pierre, ‘Francis Picabia et le surréalisme", in Pleine Marge , no. 26, Paris, December 1997, p. 144 (illustrated).
W. A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements, A. Pierre & A. Verdier, Francis Picabia, C atalogue raisonné , vol. II, 1915-1927 , Brussels, 2016, no. 857, p. 379 (illustrated).
Exh. cat., Picasso, Picabia, La peinture au dé fi , Aix-en-Provence, 2018, p. 55 (illustrated fig. 1).
FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Veglione
signed ‘Francis Picabia" (lower right)
Ripolin and oil on canvas
36 1/8 x 28 7/8 in. (91.9 x 73.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1924-1925
