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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 6, 2020 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 27 | $****** - ****** | Ligustri | |||
Feb 28, 2019 | Christie's | London | The Art Of The Surreal Evening Sale | 124 | $****** - ****** | Ligustri | |||
Feb 28, 2018 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 117 | $****** - ****** | Ligustri | |||
May 12, 2016 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist & Modern Evening Sale | 2C | $****** - ****** | Ligustri | |||
Feb 7, 2012 | Christie's | London | The Art of The Surreal Evening Sale | 107 | $****** - ****** | Ligustri | |||
Jun 23, 1993 | Christie's | London | The Kodicek Collection Modern Pictures | 308 | $****** - ****** | Ligustri |
paintings
151.8 x 96.2 cm (59.75 x 37.88 in)
oil, gouache and brush and black ink over pencil on panel
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left) and inscribed 'LIGUSTRI' (upper right)
Galerie de l'Effort Moderne [Léonce Rosenberg], Paris (no. 1211).
Mr & Mrs Walter Brewster, Chicago, by whom acquired from the above by 1930.
Ostrander Galleries, Chicago.
Dorothy S. Mundy, Davenport, Iowa, by whom acquired from the above in 1951.
Private collection, United States, by whom acquired from the above in July 1966, and thence by descent; sale, Christie’s, New York, 12 May 2016, lot 2C.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Chicago, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern French Paintings, February 1930, n.n. (titled 'Portrait').
Chicago, The Arts Club, Late Works of Francis Picabia, September - December 2000, p. 11 (illustrated; with incorrect medium).
Album Léonce Rosenberg, Francis Picabia, Jean Viollier, pl. 37 (illustrated).
Letter from Léonce Rosenberg to Picabia, 29 October 1930.
O. Mohler Picabia & M. Fagiolo dell'Arco, Francis Picabia, Turin, 1975, pp. 172 & 177 (illustrated p. 45).
M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 541, p. 523 (illustrated fig. 715, p. 362; with incorrect medium).
C. Derouet, Francis Picabia, Lettres a' Le´once Rosenberg, 1929-1940, Paris, 2000, no. 37, p. 136 (dated '1930'; with incorrect medium).
O. Mohler Picabia & B. Calté, ed., Album Picabia - Olga Mohler Picabia, Brussels, 2016, p. 43 (illustrated).
W. A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements, A. Pierre & A. Verdier, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. III, 1927-1939, New Haven & London, 2019, no. 1084, p. 206 (illustrated).
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left) and inscribed 'LIGUSTRI' (upper right)
