Francis PICABIA (1879-1953) Visage ou Cannes, circa 1939 Oil and gouache on cardboard. Signed lower left. Located "Cannes" lower right. 46 x 38 cm Provenance : - Robert Dumas Collection, Calamane and Cannes. Gift of the artist. - René Darses Collection, Cannes. - Marc-Geoffroy Ducoté Collection, Cannes. - Private collection, France. - Private collection, France. Exhibition : Francis Picabia, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nîmes, July 11-September 30, 1986, catalog, no. 105, reproduced. Bibliography: William A. Camfield, Beverley Calté, Candace Clements, Arnauld Pierre, Donald Pistolesi and Jean-Léon Muller, Francis Picabia: catalog raisonné. Volume III, 1927-1939, Brussels, Mercatorfonds, 2019, no. 1601, reproduced. A certificate from the Comité Picabia, dated October 9, 2012, will be given to the purchaser. The Catalogue raisonné states that when the Comité Picabia examined this painting in 1995, Olga Mohler Picabia recalled that Picabia had given it to the mayor of Calamane, who had married them in 1940.