Paysage maritime. 1938.
Oil on cardboard.
Signed in upper right. 37.5 x 45.4 cm (14.7 x 17.8 in). [EH].

• Excellent work in intesive colors.
• In the late 1930s, Picabia revisited the landscape theme and interpreted it in a completely new way with voluminous brushstrokes reminiscent of "Art Brut".
• From 1934 to 1940, Picabia worked in his studio at the port of Golfe-Juan between Cannes and Antibes.
• Paintings by Francis Picabia can be found at, among others, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum Boijmans von Beuningen, Rotterdam, and the Center Pompidou, Paris.

Accompanied by a photo authentication issued by the Comité Picabia on April 16, 1999.
The painting is registered unter the number 2308 at the Comité Picabia, Paris.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Switzerland.
Private collection Hanover (since 1999, from Hauswedell & Nolte).

LITERATURE: Wiliam A. Camfield, Francis Picabia. Catalogue raisonné, Brussels 2014, vol.3, no. 1509, p. 393
Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, auction 343, Moderne Kunst, June 12, 1999, lot 2096, p. 282 (color illu. p. 283)
Jean-Paul Potron, Paysages de Nice Villefranche-Beaulieu du XVIIème au XXème siècle, Nice, 2000, fig.
Arnauld Pierre, Francis Picabia. La peinture sans aura, Paris 2002, fig.