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FRANCIS PICABIA Sans Titre (Transparence).
Pencil on cream wove paper, circa 1930s. 285x257 mm; 11 1/4x10 1/8 inches. Signed in pencil, lower right recto.
Gift of the artist to Betty and Van Meter Ames, Cincinnati; Sanford Ames, Cincinnati; thence by descent to Elizabeth Ames, Cincinnati.
Van Meter Ames (1898-1985) was a professor of philosophy at the University of Cincinnati and one of the early American experts on Zen Buddhism. He and his wife traveled frequently to France, where they became acquainted with Picabia and acquired the current work.
