Francis PICABIA (1859-1953)
Effect of the sun by the sea in Fuentarrabia
Oil on canvas, signed and dated 1907 lower left
Titled, dated and numbered 3036 on the stretcher, on the reverse
Label of the Picabia exhibition (Nîmes 1986) on the reverse
Height : 54 cm 54 cm ; Width : 65 cm
A notice of inclusion in the Catalogue Raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia written by the Picabia Committee will be given to the buyer.
Exhibition :
Francis Picabia, Nîmes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 11 July - 30 September 1986
Provenance :
- Former Jules Emmery Collection (died around 1956) in his apartment, rue de l'Assomption Paris XVIe ;
- Inherited from the previous one then private collection in Paris.
Following in the footsteps of the first impressionist masters, Francis Picabia became enthusiastic about the subtlety of the light of the countryside and the seaside. After an exhibition at the Cremetti Gallery in London, the painter acquired a new car in which he traveled through Spain to Andalusia. During this period he stayed in the Basque Country and painted some canvases of Fontarabia (Fuentarrabia), where the "effects of the sun" are an obsession of the artist. In 1907 he confided to a journalist that the painter "must reproduce the emotion that nature makes him feel".
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