Details FRANCIS PICABIA (1879-1953)Sans titresigned Francis Picabia (lower right)oil on board29 5/8 x 23 in. (75.3 x 58.5 cm.)Painted circa 1940-1942 Provenance Michael Werner Gallery, New York.Mary Boone Gallery, New York (acquired from the above, 1983).David Salle, New York (acquired from the above, 1983).Diego Cortez Arte, Ltd., New York (acquired from the above, November 1987).Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1 December 1987. Literature A. Umland and C. Hug, Francis Picabia: Our Heads are Round So our Thoughts Can Change Direction, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2016, p. 307 (illustrated in color, fig. 9; titled Portrait de Viviane Romance and dated 1939).W.A. Camfield, B. Calté, C. Clements and A. Pierre, Francis Picabia: Catalogue raisonné, 1940-1953, Paris, 2022, vol. IV, p. 210, no. 1650 (illustrated in color). Exhibited New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Francis Picabia, September-October 1983. Conditions of sale