Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
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Francis Picabia (1879-1953)

Le mirage

細節
Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
Le mirage
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left); inscribed 'Le Mirage' (upper right)
oil on canvas
19 x 36½ in. (48.2 x 92.7 cm.)
Painted in Mougins in 1929
來源
Galerie L'Effort Moderne [Léonce Rosenberg], Paris (no. 9050J).
Anon. sale, Gebouw Leesmuseum, Amsterdam, 30 May 1933, lot 28.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 3 April 1974, lot 95.
Anon. sale, Galleria d'Arte Falsetti, Prato, 30 November 1974, lot 114.
出版
Letter from the artist to Léonce Rosenberg, dated Mougins, le 5 Juin 1929, in C. Derouet (ed.), 'Francis Picabia, Lettres à Léonce Rosenberg 1929-1940', in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, 2000, pp. 31 & 137 (illustrated p. 32).
展覽
Turin, Galerie Gissi, Protagonisti del XX Secolo - anno 2, Dec. 1974-Jan. 1975, no. 6186.
注意事項
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拍品專文

The Comité Picabia has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.

On the evening of Saturday 15 June 1929, Mr and Mrs Léonce Rosenberg held a house warming at their new flat at 75 rue de Longchamp in the sixteenth arrondisement. A week earlier they had taken delivery of seven new pictures from Picabia with which they decorated the rooms of their new home alongside works from other artists in the 'stable' such as de Chirico, Ernst and Léger. The present work was included in this group, as the letter from the artist indicates (op. cit.). The party was reviewed extensively in the following week's press, with particular attention being paid to the effect that Picabia's works had: 'Pour la chambre à coucher de citronnier, émerveillement des experts, Picabia (qui l'eût cru?) a peint de grandes toiles aux reflets sous-marins, glauques, bleuâtres, à la surface desquelles s'enchevêtrent mille dessins, aux lignes serpentines, souples, de tous les ensembles, c'est le plus "décoratif"' (in Variétés, no. 3, 15 July 1929).