Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property of a Private British Collector
Francis Picabia
Ouistiti
Auction Closed
March 3, 05:01 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private British Collector
Francis Picabia
1879 - 1953
Ouistiti
signed Francis Picabia (lower left) and titled (upper right); inscribed A Sirato très sympathiquément and dated Paris 4 décembre 1935 on the stretcher
oil on canvas
50 by 61cm., 19¾ by 24in.
Framed: 69 by 81cm., 27⅛ by 31⅞in.
Painted circa 1933-34.
Charles Sirato, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1935)
Simone Collinet (Galerie Furstenberg), Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7th December 1973, lot 169
Private Collection, Europe (sold: Sotheby's, London, 26th June 1991, lot 152)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Simone Collinet (Galerie Furstenberg), Paris
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7th December 1973, lot 169
Private Collection, Europe (sold: Sotheby's, London, 26th June 1991, lot 152)
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements & Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia Catalogue raisonné, 1927-1939, Brussels, 2019, vol. III, no. 1276, illustrated in colour p. 297
New York, Valentine Gallery, Recent paintings by Francis Picabia, 1934, no. 15