Lot #314: FRANCIS PICABIA - La beauté espagnole - Watercolor, gouache, and pencil drawing on paper

 

Artist: Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953).
Title: "La beauté espagnole".
Medium: Watercolor, gouache, and pencil drawing on paper.
Date: Composed c1925.
Dimensions: Overall size: 11 1/2 x 9 in. (292 x 229 mm).
Lot Note(s): Signed lower right. Drawn on cream wove paper. Very good to fine condition; the colors fresh; a few very small fox marks verso, not visible recto, else fine; overall, presents very well. Comment(s): A work by Picabia, ‘Espagnole,’ comparable to our example in composition, size, medium, and year of creation, sold for $50,110 (€45,080) at Pierre Bergé & associés, Paris, December 18, 2019, lot #200. Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, poet, and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism he became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions are colorful and rich in contrasts. In 1925 Picabia returned to figurative painting. Image © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. [30503-2-16000]