A Hot Summer for Picabia

Result EUR314,600

Published on 04 July 2019, by Anne Doridou-Heim

Auction on 26 June 2019 - 14:00 (CEST) - Salle 1 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009

Picabia played with the effects of sunlight, revisited modernity and showed evidence of his freedom as a painter with two dissimilar works.

Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Les Châtaigniers à Munot, effet de soleil (The Chestnut... A Hot Summer for Picabia

Francis Picabia (1879-1953), Les Châtaigniers à Munot, effet de soleil (The Chestnut Trees at Munot, Effect of Sunlight), 1907, oil on original canvas, 73 x 92 cm.
Result: €314, 600

As part of last summer’s "Picasso Mediterranée" event, the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence imagined a confrontation between Francis Picabia and the Malaga-born painter. Critics hailed…

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