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Couple by Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

Couple, 1924

Oil and Ripolin on board
53.7 x 65.1 cm (21.13 x 25.63 in)
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Last recorded sale at Christie's, New York (13 Nov 2018)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Nov 13, 2018
Christie'sNew YorkImpressionist and Modern Art Day Sale290
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Couple
Jun 25, 2008
Sotheby'sLondonImpressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale50
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Couple
Nov 29, 1995
Christie'sLondonImpressionist & Modern Paintings, Watercolours & Sculpture (Part I167
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Couple
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Artwork Description
Category

paintings

Dimensions

53.7 x 65.1 cm (21.13 x 25.63 in)

Materials

oil and Ripolin on board

Signature

signed ‘Francis Picabia’ (lower center)

Provenance

Simone Collinet, Paris.

Enrico Baj, Milan (acquired from the above, February 1958 and until at least 1976).

Private collection, Switzerland; sale, Christie’s, London, 29 November 1995, lot 167.

Anon. (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 June 2008, lot 50.

Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owner.

Exhibited

Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich and Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbe-Museum, Picabia, February-June 1967, no. 44 (illustrated).

Paris, Musée national d'art moderne, Francis Picabia, January-March 1976, p. 137, no. 166 (illustrated, p. 136; titled Couple au profil de Marcel Duchamp).

Cologne, Galerie Michael Werner; Berlin, Galerie Springer; Hamburg, Galerie Neuendorf and Munich, Galerie Fred Jahn, Francis Picabia, March-July 1980, p. 19, fig. I (illustrated).

Literature

M. Sanouillet, Picabia, Paris, 1964, p. 116 (illustrated; titled Couple (Profil de Marcel Duchamp)).

M.L. Borràs, Picabia, New York, 1985, p. 320, no. 606 (illustrated).

Description

signed ‘Francis Picabia’ (lower center)

oil and Ripolin on board

21 1/8 x 25 5/8 in. (53.7 x 65.1 cm.)

Painted circa 1924-1927