FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

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FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Où sont les âmes des bêtes?

signed lower right Francis Picabia and titled upper right Où sont les âmes des bêtes?--watercolor and pencil on paper
10 1/8 x 8 5/8 in. (25.7 x 21.9 cm.)

Drawn circa 1931
Provenance
Anon. sale, Swann Galleries, Inc., New York, October 23, 1981,
lot 260

Lot Essay

This drawing is sold with a copy of André Maurois, Le peseur d'ames, published by Antoine Roche, Paris, in 1931. This example is numbered 3, and is one of eight copies in a deluxe edition printed on Imperial Japan which included an original watercolor by the artist and a suite of color and black-and-white reproductions. A copy of an English translation by Hamish Miles, published by D. Appleton & Company, New York in 1931 accompanies this lot.