Francis Picabia (1879-1953)

Volupté

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£229,250 (Set Currency)
($358,547)

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£80,000 - £120,000
($120,000 - $180,000)

Sale Information

Sale 1103 —
The Art Of The Surreal
6 February 2013
London, King Street
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Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
Volupté
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right)
brush and black ink with coloured crayons and charcoal on paper laid down on board
25 1/8 x 19 3/8 in. (63.8 x 49.2 cm.)
Executed circa 1932

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("droit de Suite"). If the Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer also agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

Provenance

Galerie Fischer, Paris.
Private collection, Brussels, by whom acquired from the above in March 1961, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Pre-Lot Text

THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

Literature

W. A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, no. 355 (illustrated).
M. L. Borràs, Picabia, New York, 1985, no. 600, p. 526 (illustrated fig. 776, p. 373).

Exhibited

Cannes, Galerie Alexandre III, Atelier Francis Picabia, August 1934, no. 22.
Brussels, Musée d'Ixelles, Picabia 1879-1953, May - August 1983.

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