Francis Picabia - Untitled (Vaches dans les plaines de Normandie)

Object Description

Oil on canvas, signed dated 1905, signed and inscribed ‘F. Picabia Vaches dans les plaines de Normandie’ (on the stretcher)
Canvas size: 20 x 26in / 51 x 66cm
Frame size: 27 x 33in / 69 x 84cm

Object History

Acquired by David Montagu (1928-1998), 4th Baron Swaythling before 1965.

Object Literature

W.A. Camfield, Francis Picabia, Princeton, 1979, no. 14 (illustrated; titled ‘Landscape’).
M.L. Borràs, Picabia, London, 1985, no. 25, p. 503 (illustrated fig. 132, p. 66; titled ‘Cows in a Normandy Pasture’).
W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements & A. Pierre, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, vol. I, 1898-1914, New Haven & London, 2014, no. 198, p. 224 (illustrated).

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