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Francis Picabia

Deux amies

Estimate

2,200,000 - 2,800,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Francis Picabia

1879 - 1953


Deux amies

signed Francis Picabia (lower left)

oil on board

75.6 by 105.9 cm. 29¾ by 41¾ in.

Executed circa 1940-41.


Formerly in the collection of Oswald Oberhuber.

Succession Picabia, Paris (the artist's estate)

Olga Mohler Picabia, Paris (the artist's wife; acquired from the above in 1979)

Private Collection, Paris

Sotheby’s, London, 29 June 1988, lot 205 (consigned by the above)

Professor Oswald Oberhuber, Vienna (acquired from the above sale and until at least 2003)

Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna

Acquired from the above on 24 November 2003 by the present owner

Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Paris, 1985, no. 745, fig. 917, p. 430, illustrated (dated 1941-42)

Carole Boulbes, Picabia: Le Saint Masqué, Paris, 1998, pp. 107-09

Arnauld Piette, Francis Picabia, La peinture sans aura, Paris, 2002, fig. 122, p. 260, illustrated (dated 1941-42)

William A. Camfield, Beverly Calté, Candace Clements and Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue Raisonné, 1940-1953, vol. IV, New Haven and London, 2023, no. 1620, pp. 42 and 192, illustrated in colour

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Francis Picabia, 1976, no. 226, p. 168, illustrated; p. 190 (dated 1941-42)

Cologne, Michael Werner, Francis Picabia, 1980, ill. I, p. 20, illustrated; p. 13

Vienna, Heiligenkreuzer Hof Exhibition Center, Die Moderne oder die Überwindung eines Begriffs, 1994, p. 67, illustrated in colour; illustrated in colour on the exhibition poster

Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Francis Picabia Das Spätwerk, 1933-1953, 1997-98, p. 70, illustrated in colour (dated 1941-42)

Grenoble, Musée de Grenoble and Geneva, Musée du Petit Palais, Francis Picabia, les Nus et la méthode, 1997-98, no. 19, p. 58, illustrated in colour; pp. 59 and 101 (dated 1941-42)

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Francis Picabia: Singulier idéal, 2002-03, p. 363, illustrated in colour (dated 1941-42)