Lot Essay
The Comit Picabia has confirmed the authenticity of this gouache.
Le Perroquet (The Parrot)
Details
Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
Le Perroquet (The Parrot)
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right)
gouache, watercolor, brush and black ink over pencil on tan paper mounted at the edges on board
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1928
Le Perroquet (The Parrot)
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower right)
gouache, watercolor, brush and black ink over pencil on tan paper mounted at the edges on board
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm.)
Painted in 1928
Provenance
Mme Lespinasse
Literature
M.L. Borras, Picabia, New York, 1985, p. 524, no. 509 (illustrated, p. 360, fig. 708).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Thophile Briant, Francis Picabia, October-November 1928, no. 17.