Lot Essay
The Comité Picabia will include this painting in their forthcoming Picabia catalogue raisonné.
L'Eglise de Ouistreham, effet de soleil
Details
Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
L'Eglise de Ouistreham, effet de soleil
signed bottom right 'Picabia'--signed again, dated and titled on the reverse 'Francis Picabia l'Eglise de Ouistreham, effet de soleil, Calvados 1905'
oil on canvas
25½ x 36¼in. (64.7 x 92cm.)
Painted in 1905
L'Eglise de Ouistreham, effet de soleil
signed bottom right 'Picabia'--signed again, dated and titled on the reverse 'Francis Picabia l'Eglise de Ouistreham, effet de soleil, Calvados 1905'
oil on canvas
25½ x 36¼in. (64.7 x 92cm.)
Painted in 1905
Provenance
Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 31, 1926, lot 107 (illustrated)
Literature
M.-L. Borras, Picabia, Barcelona, 1985, no. 153 (illustrated, p. 72)
Sale room notice
Please note that the painting measures 25 1/2 x 36 1/4in. (64.7 x 92cm.) and is signed again, dated and titled on the reverse 'Francis Picabia l'Eglise de Ouistreham, effet de soleil, Calvados 1905'