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FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Sans titre
signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower centre)
watercolour and pen and India ink on paper
13 x 8 in. (33 x 20.3 cm.)
Executed circa 1924-1925

Provenance

Louis Aragon, Paris.
Maria Macorig, Paris, a gift from the above in March 1982, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

W. A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements, A. Pierre & A. Verdier, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, 1915-1927, New Haven & London, 2016, no. 895, p. 389 (illustrated).

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent. This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.

Further details

The Comité Picabia has confirmed the authenticity of this work.

Conditions of sale

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Descriptif du lot

The owl and dog elements represented in this drawing are reprised from Picabia's Dresseur d'Animaux, an oil on canvas painted in 1923 that is currently in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

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