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FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)
Lot 534 FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF LOUIS ARAGON

FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)

Sans titre

Closed4 March 2022

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GBP 10,000–15,000

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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

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

Specialist note

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.