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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 19, 2019 | Sotheby's | Paris | Collection Marianne et Pierre Nahon | 10 | $****** - ****** | MELIBÉE |
paintings
195.5 x 130 cm (76.97 x 51.18 in)
oil on canvas
signed and titled
Léonce Rosenberg, Paris (on loan)
G. Fontes, Paris (1975-76)
Sale: Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 17, 1983, lot 62
Galerie Theo, Madrid
Sale: Sotheby's, New York, May 11, 1987, lot 85
Hand Neuendorf, Hamburg
Kent Fine Art, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Kent Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 1989
Cannes, Galerie Alexandre III, Picabia, 20 August-September 1930
Paris, Galerie Georges Bernheim, Exposition Francis Picabia, 10-25 November 1931; catalogue, no. 11
Amsterdam, De Onafhankelijken, Hedendaagsche Schilderkunst en Beeldhouwkunst, March 1932; catalogue, p. 9, illustrated in black and white
Barcelona, Fundació Caixa de Pensions; Madrid, Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Francis Picabia 1879-1953, Exposició antologica, 29 January-26 March & 16 April-31 May 1985; catalogue, no. 110, p. 177, illustrated in colour
Nîmes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, Francis Picabia, 11 July-30 September 1986; catalogue, no. 90, p. 154, illustrated in black and white
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Frankfurt, Galerie Neuendorf, Picabia 1879–1953, 30 July-4 September & 28 September-5 November 1988; catalogue, no. 36, p. 91, illustrated in colour
New York, Kent Fine Art, Francis Picabia, Accomodations of desire, Transparences 1924-1932, 19 April-3 June 1989; catalogue, no. XVII, p. 65, illustrated in colour
Nice, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Picabia et la Côte d'Azur, 5 July-6 October 1991; Gijon, Centro Internacional de Arte, Picabia entre Guerras, November-December 1991; french catalogue, no. 37, p. 73, illustrated in colour
Vence, Château Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, Portraits de femmes, 3 July-September 1994; catalogue, p. 51, illustrated in colour
Vence, Château Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, Francis Picabia, July-October 1998; catalogue, front cover and p. 123, illustrated in colour
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Francis Picabia, Singulier idéal, 16 November 2002-16 March 2003; catalogue, p. 331, illustrated in colour
Krems, Kunsthalle, Francis Picabia, 15 July-4 November 2012; catalogue, p. 105, illustrated in colour
Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, David Salle, Francis Picabia, 23 January-23 February 2013; catalogue, p. 35, illustrated in colour
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Fondation Maeght, Les Aventures de la vérité, Peinture et philosophie, un récit, 29 June-11 November 2013; catalogue, p. 213, illustrated in colour
Zurich, Kunsthaus; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Francis Picabia: Notre tête est ronde pour permettre à la pensée de changer de direction, 3 June-25 September 2016 & 20 November-19 March 2017; catalogue, p. 205, pl. 168, illustrated in colour
William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: his art, life and times, Princeton, 1979, no. 349, p. 242, illustrated in black and white
Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Paris, 1985, no. 750, pp. 367, illustrated in colour
oil on canvas
Executed circa 1931.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Comité Picabia.
signed and titled
195,5 x 130 cm; 77 x 51 1/8 in.
