Francis Picabia (1878-1953)
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Francis Picabia (1878-1953)

Les quatre âges de la femme

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Francis Picabia (1878-1953)
Les quatre âges de la femme
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left)
oil on canvas
28¾ x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm.)
Painted in 1938-39
Provenance
André Breton, Paris.
Simone Collinet-Breton, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
S. Alexandrian, Dictionnaire de la peinture surréaliste, Paris, 1973, p. 50.
J. Baron, Anthologie plastique du surréalisme, Paris, 1980, p. 211.
M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 697, p. 529 (illustrated p. 416, no. 886).
Exhibited
Paris, Didier Imbert Fine Art, Picabia, April - July 1990, no. 27 (dated '1926').
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, June - September 1999, vol. I, no. 209 (illustrated p. 278; dated '1926').
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