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Artworks
Francis Picabia France, 1879-1953
Sans titre, 1948Oil on board laid down on panel105 by 75 cm (41⅜ by 29½ in.)Signed 'Francis Picabia' (lower left) and dated '1948' (lower right)59461© 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris$720,000Further images
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Painted in 1948. This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Comité Picabia. Picabia’s Sans titre from 1948 stands out as an amalgamation of...Painted in 1948. This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by the Comité Picabia. Picabia’s Sans titre from 1948 stands out as an amalgamation of the artist’s life-long experiments with abstraction and figuration. The solidity of the opaque white and brown-gold background, coupled with the apparatus-like structure at center, recalls Picabia’s 'Mechanomorphs,' in which the artist portrayed his subjects with machinist aesthetics. The green, blue, and red rounded forms cascading from the top of the canvas evoke atomic imagery. Other distorted biomorphic shapes float in the same atmosphere, all attracted to the trapezoidal plane at center.Provenance
Vittorio Levi, Paris (acquired in the 1950s)
Private Collection (by descent from the above)
Exhibitions
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Collections d'expression française, 1962, no. 184, illustrated
Santiago de Compostela, Museo do Pobo Galego, Francis Picabia, o soño español, 1996, no. 55, illustrated in color
Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Francis Picabia antologia/anthology, 1997, no. 112, illustrated in color
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen and Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Francis Picabia. Das Spätwerk 1933-1953, 1997-98, illustrated in color p. 122
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