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PROPERTY FROM THE GIAN ENZO SPERONE COLLECTION

Francis Picabia

Sans titre

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October 24, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 EUR

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Description

PROPERTY FROM THE GIAN ENZO SPERONE COLLECTION

Francis Picabia

1879 - 1953

Sans titre (Personnage)



signed Francis Picabia (lower right)

pen and ink on paper

61,2 x 47,2 cm; 24⅛ x 18⅝ in.

Executed circa 1923-24.

Hôtel Rameau, Versailles, 9 October 1960, lot 56 (titled Composition surréaliste aux trois personnages and dated 1925)

Acquired before 2004 by the present owner

New York, Sperone Westwater, 2004, pp. 60 & 61, illustrated

Montauban, Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Picabia pique à Ingres, 2022, p. 90, no. 59, illustrated

Rovereto, The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, L'uomo senza qualità. Gian Enzo Sperone collezionista, 2023-24

New York, Sperone Westwater, A triple alliance. Giorgio de Chirico, Francis Picabia, Andy Warhol, 2024

Maria Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Barcelone, 1985, no. 825, p. 403, illustrated (titled Titre inconnu (Trois profils), dated 1932 and with erroneous dimensions)

Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne / Centre Pompidou, 2004, no. 67

William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements & Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné. Volume II (1915-1927), Brussels, 2016, no. 810, p.363, illustrated p. 362

Christian Briend, Man Ray, Picabia et la Revue Littérature, Paris, 2014, pp. 23 & 24

Umberto Allemandi, Gian Enzo Sperone dealer and collector from 350 BC to last week, Turin, 2019, illustrated p. 388