PROPERTY FROM THE GIAN ENZO SPERONE COLLECTION
Sans titre
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October 24, 12:30 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 EUR
Lot Details
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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