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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

Francis Picabia

Saint Antoine

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION

FRANCIS PICABIA

1879 - 1953

Saint Antoine


signed Francis Picabia (lower right) and titled SAINT ANTOINE (upper left)

oil on canvas

195 x 130 cm; 76 ¾ x 51⅛ in.

Executed circa 1930-31.

The artist’s Estate (from 1954 to 1979)

Laure Montet Saint Clément, France (from 1979)

Art Contemporain, Paris (by 1989 and until at least 1986)

Private Collection, Paris (by 1990)

Cornette de Saint-Cyr, Paris, 16 October 1993, lot 49

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in 2010 by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Bernheim, Exposition Francis Picabia, 1931, no. 17, illustrated

Paris, Galerie René Drouin, Revue 491, 50 ans de plaisirs, 1949, no. 58

Brussels, Musée Ixelles de Bruxelles, Picabia,1983, no. 43, illustrated in colour

Tokyo, The Museum of Modern Art; and Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, Picabia, 1984, no. 50, illustrated in colour

Madrid, Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso del Ministerio de Cultura; and Barcelona, Center Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Francis Picabia, 1879-1953, 1985, no. 103, illustrated

Paris, Société des Artistes Indépendants, La femme corps et âme, 1986, no. 83, illustrated p. 88

Nîmes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, Francis Picabia, 1986, no. 83, illustrated

Seibu, Takanawa, The Seibu Museum of Art, Picabia,1986, no. 83, illustrated

Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Picabia, 1990, no. 47, illustrated in colour

Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, New York, 1985, no. 571, fig. 758, illustrated p. 368

Michel Sima, 21 visages d’artistes, photographies de Michel Sima, introduction by Jean Cocteau, Paris, 1959, n. p.

William A. Camfield, Beverly Calté, Candace Clements and Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue Raisonné, 1927-1939, vol. III, New Haven and London, 2019, no. 1195, p. 268, illustrated in colour