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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Feb 4, 2015 | Christie's | London | The Art of the Surreal Evening Sale | 110 | $****** - ****** | Mi-Carême (Mid-Lent) |
paintings
100.4 x 81 cm (39.53 x 31.89 in)
ripolin and oil on canvas
signed 'FRANCIS PICABIA' (lower left)
Jean Villeri, France, by whom acquired in Nîmes in 1944.Galerie André François Petit, Paris, by 1963.Galerie Jacques Tronche, Paris, by 1976.Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.Acquired by the family of the present owner in 1999.
Paris, Galerie André François Petit, Hans Bellmer, Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, René Magritte, Francis Picabia, Yves Tanguy, 1963 (illustrated; titled 'Peinture' and dated '1924').Brussels, Casino communal, Trésors Du Surréalisme, June - September 1968, no. 112, p. 63 (illustrated).Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Surrealism?, March - April 1970, no. 78, p. 91; this exhibition later travelled to Göteborg, Konsthall, April - May 1970, Sundvall Museum, May - June 1970, and Malmö Museum, June 1970.Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Francis Picabia, January - March, 1976, no. 149 (illustrated p. 139). Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Francis Picabia: singulier idéal, November 2002 - March 2003, p. 300 (illustrated p. 301; titled 'Mi-Carême (Carnaval)').
This Quarter, vol. 1, no. 3, Monte Carlo, Spring 1927 (illustrated).O. Mohler, Francis Picabia, Turin, 1975, p. 35 (illustrated).M.L. Borràs, Picabia, New York, 1985, no. 408, p. 519 (illustrated fig. 558, p. 307).
