The Globe

Inscription: Signed (lower center): Francis Picabia; inscribed (lower right, on sign): HOTEL ANCIEN

the artist (until 1928; sold in 1928, through Marcel Duchamp, to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1928–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)

Galerie Briant-Robert, Paris. "Francis Picabia," November 11–30, 1927, no. 44 (as "Hôtel ancien").

Intimate Gallery, New York. "Picabia Exhibition," April 19–May 11, 1928, no. 9 (as "Femme [sic] au glacier").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," September 9–November 12, 1967, no catalogue.

Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Francis Picabia," January 23–March 29, 1976, no. 169 (as "Le Globe" or "Hôtel ancien," 1924–27).

Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. "Francis Picabia," October 29–December 4, 1983, no. 78 (as "Nr. 2 Global, " ca. 1927).

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Francis Picabia," February 3–March 25, 1984, no. 78.

Moderna Museet, Stockholm. "Francis Picabia," April 7–May 25, 1984, no. 70 (as "Nr. 2 Global," ca 1927).

Valencia. IVAM, Centre Julio Gonzalez. "Francis Picabia: Máquinas y Españolas," October 5–December 3, 1995, unnumbered cat. (p. 114; as "Hôtel ancien (The Globe)").

Barcelona. Fundació Antoni Tàpies. "Francis Picabia: Máquinas y Españolas," December 19, 1995–March 3, 1996, unnumbered cat.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no. 20.

M. P. "The Art Galleries: A Good Run of New Spring Sap." New Yorker 4 (May 5, 1928), pp. 73–74, calls it "Femme au Glacier".

Jean-Hubert Martin and Hélène Seckel, ed. Francis Picabia. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1976, pp. 141, 189, no. 169, ill.

William A. Camfield. Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times. Princeton, 1979, pp. 225, 227–28 n. 40, p. 291, fig. 300, calls it "Hôtel ancien (Old Hotel)" and dates it ca. 1927.

Marianne Heinz in Francis Picabia. Exh. cat., Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. Cologne, 1983, p. 176, no. 78, ill. p. 87.

Maria Lluïsa Borràs. Picabia. New York, 1985, p. 298 n. 42, p. 520, no. 445, fig. 619 (color), calls it "Old Hotel" and dates it about 1926.

Patrick Bailly-Cowell in Picabia et la Côte d'Azure. Exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain. Nice, 1991, p. 27, ill., calls it "Hôtel ancien" and dates it 1926.

Jessica Murphy in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 43, 48, 247, no. 20, ill. (color) pp. 48, 247.

William A. Camfield et al. Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 2, 1915–1927. Brussels, 2016, pp. 125–26, 432–34, 441, no. 955, ill. p. 433 (color, overall and detail), call it "Hôtel ancien" and date it about 1925–27.