Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Animation

Francis Picabia (1879-1953)
Animation
signed and dated 'Picabia 1914' (lower left) and titled 'ANIMATION' (upper left)
gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on card
21 1/8 x 25 3/8 in. (53.7 x 64.4 cm.)
Painted in Paris, 1914

Provenance
Paul Eluard, Paris (acquired from the artist).
Roland Penrose, London (acquired from the above, 1938).
Rosamond Bernier, New York (acquired from the above, 1969).
Eugene V. Thaw, New York (acquired from the above).
Galerie Tarica, Paris (acquired from the above, circa 1970).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners, circa 1970.

Saleroom Notice
Please note that the correct medium for this work is gouache, watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on card.
Please note that this painting has been requested by Musée Granet d'Aix-en-Provence and the Fundació Mapfre in Barcelona for their forthcoming exhibition Picasso-Picabia: History of Painting to be held from June 2018-January 2019.

Pre-Lot Text
Beyond Boundaries: Avant-Garde Masterworks from a European Collection

Literature
J.-H. Martin, Francis Picabia, exh. cat, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1976, p. 47.
W.A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, pp. 64 and 284 (illustrated, fig. 89; with incomplete medium).
M.L. Borràs, Picabia, New York, 1985, pp. 101 and 508, no. 159 (illustrated in color, p. 146, fig. 258; with incomplete medium).
C. Green, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: The European Avant-gardes, Art in France and Western Europe, 1904-circa 1945, London, 1995, p. 360 (illustrated, p. 362, fig. 1; with incomplete medium).
A. Pierre, "Picabia, danse, musique: Une clé pour Udnie" in Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, no. 75, spring 2001, pp. 72-73 (illustrated).
A. Pierre, Francis Picabia: La peinture sana aura, Paris, 2002, p. 106 (illustrated, p. 107, fig. 39).
W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements and A. Pierre, Francis Picabia: Catalogue raisonné, 1898-1914, New Haven, 2014, vol. I, pp. 94-97 and 375, no. 482 (illustrated in color, p. 375; with incomplete medium).

Exhibited
San Francisco, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Post Exposition Period, January-May 1916, p. 7, no. 426.
London, New Burlington Galleries, The International Surrealist Exhibition, June-July 1936, p. 26, no. 291.
The London Gallery, Ltd., The Cubist Spirit In Its Time, March-May 1947, p. 25, no. 27 (with inverted dimensions and incomplete medium).
London, Matthiesen Gallery, Francis Picabia, October-November 1959, no. 19 (with incomplete medium).
Kunsthalle Bern, Francis Picabia: Werke von 1909-1924, July-September 1962, no. 8 (dated 1913-1914 and with incomplete medium).
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery and London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Francis Picabia, March-April 1964, no. 12 (illustrated; with incomplete medium).
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Francis Picabia, September-December 1970, pp. 22 and 84, no. 38 (illustrated, p. 84; with incomplete medium).