Francis PICABIA (1879-1953) Happy Danger, ca. 1935-46 Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Dated lower left "1925". 59 x 47 cm Provenance : - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz. - Centrum für Kunst, Vaduz, Liechtenstein. - Private collection, Liechtenstein. Exhibitions : - Francis Picabia - Peintures, Galerie Denise René, Paris, April 26-May 20, 1946. - 50 ans de plaisir, Galerie René Drouin, Paris, March 4-26, 1949, no. 69. - Art cubain contemporain, Galerie du Dragon, Paris, February 21-March 10, 1961, no. 9, catalog, reproduced. Bibliography: - Pierre Lagarde, "Picabia pinxit", Paysage dimanche, Paris, May 19, 1946. - Marie-Lluïsa Borràs, Picabia, Paris, Albin Michel, 1985, no. 1029, reproduced. - William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, Volume IV, Brussels, Mercatorfonds, 2022, no. 1923, reproduced p. 33. This work was shown at the Galerie Drouin retrospective in 1949 under the title Heureux danger, probably taken from "Danger des plus heureux", Nietzsche, Le Gai Savoir, IV: 302. It was dated 1936, which corresponds to the figure and face underlying this composition. The phallic "scar" and the superimposed oval "carpet" are later additions, as is the fictitious date at bottom left (William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements, Francis Picabia, Catalogue raisonné, Volume IV, Brussels, Mercatorfonds, 2022, no. 1923, reproduced on p. 33).