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Lot 27:
Description
Keywords: no reserve, portrait, watercolor, ink, crayon, modern art, French artist, male portrait, works on paper, signed art
Summary:
Signed Francis Picabia at right. Reverse bears inscriptions reading “Oeuvre de jeunesse de Francis Picabia, ”Expressive portrait of a mustached male musician, identified on the reverse label as Musicien Tzigane. Executed in watercolor, ink, and crayon on paper, the composition shows the sitter in a patterned jacket and brightly colored necktie against a loosely worked blue ground. Signed Picabia at right.
French painter Francis Picabia is best known as an early pioneer of the Dada movement. Between 1915 and 1917, he lived periodically in New York where he was active in the New York Dada group. There he met Alfred Steiglitz, Man Ray, Walter Arensberg and Beatrice Wood, among others. Picabia was involved with a number of Dada publications, including ‘391’. He traveled between the New York, Zurich, and Paris Dada groups taking ideas from one place to the others.
Reverse bears inscriptions reading “Oeuvre de jeunesse de Francis Picabia, ” with a further notation to the ex. Collection Jean de Rasty, along with an old label identifying the subject and dimensions.
(Sheet shows nominal overall toning and age-related discoloration. Minor scattered surface wear, handling marks, and light rippling visible. Frame with wear, abrasions, losses, and tape residue to the reverse. Not examined out of frame.)
Measurement: Visible: 9 3/4 x 8 in. (24.8 x 20.3 cm.), Frame: 15 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (39.4 x 33.7 cm.) approx
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