Francis Picabia

Lu-Li

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October 24, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 EUR

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¡ AMÉRICA ! PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Francis Picabia

1879 - 1953

Lu-Li

signed Francis Picabia (lower right) and titled LU-LI (lower left)

oil on cardboard mounted on wood pannel

73 x 59,5 cm; 28¾ x 23⅜ in.

Executed in 1945-46.

Maitre Blâche, Versailles, 26 November 1972, lot 211

Private Collection, France (acquired at the above sale)

Private Collection, France (acquired from the above in 1974)

Sotheby's, Paris, 6 July 2006, lot 16 (consigned by the above)

Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired by the present owner by 2014

Paris, Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, 1947, no. 28

William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements & Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné. Volume IV (1940-1953), Brussels, 2022, no. 1889, illustrated p. 313

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