PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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