FRANCIS PICABIA | VILLENEUVE-SUR-YONNE
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December 14, 05:58 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
FRANCIS PICABIA
1879 - 1953
VILLENEUVE-SUR-YONNE
Signed Picabia and dated 1905 (lower left); titled (lower right)
Pencil on paper
10⅝ by 13¾ in. (27 by 35.2 cm)
Framed: 17⅜ by 20¾ in. (44.1 by 52.7 cm)
Executed in 1905.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Comité Picabia.
Private Collection, France
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Executed while Picabia was in his mid-twenties, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne is a superb example of the artist’s ventures into the Impressionist movement. Influenced by Impressionist masters including Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley, the young Picabia painted a number of en plein air canvases and ephemeral, atmospheric drawings in the early 20th century, including the present work. Villeneuve-sur-Yonne was founded in the 12th century to protect the boundary of the Champagne region and Picabia deftly captures the medieval roots of the city in this delicate depiction.