It is not known whether or not Picabia assented to this and, in fact, the painting was not reproduced in the magazine. In a letter dated the beginning of May of that year André Breton, the leading figure within the French Dada group, asked Picabia's permission to reproduce ‘The Fig-Leaf' in the magazine Littérature. Picabia painted T03845 in the early months of 1922 whilst living at Tremblay-sur-Mauldre. Although the leaf shown in the painting resembles in fact a vine leaf and not a fig-leaf, this interpretation of its French title is supported by the circumstances surrounding the making of the work. In the context of art, however, the accepted translation of the phrase ‘feuille de vigne' is ‘fig-leaf', in the sense of a cache-sexe, and the painting has been retitled accordingly. When acquired by the Tate Gallery T03845 was known as ‘The Vine Leaf'.
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p.65, as ‘La feuille de vigne (Das Feigenblatt)' Maria Llusa Borràs, Picabia, 1985, pp.235-6 and p.460, fig.
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cat., Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf 1983, p.175, repr. 209, as ‘La Feuille de vigne (Fig-Leaf)' Francis Picabia, exh. cat., Galeries nationales au Grand Palais, Paris 1976, p.97 and p.103, repr., as ‘La feuille de vigne' William Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton 1979, pp.188-9, fig. p.65, as ‘La feuille de vigne ') Lit: Francis Picabia, exh. 1983, Kunsthaus Zurich, Feb.-March 1984, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, April-May 1984 (46, repr. p.103, as ‘La feuille de vigne') Francis Picabia, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Oct.-Dec. 1946 (17) Francis Picabia, Galeries nationales au Grand Palais, Paris, Jan.-March 1976 (122, repr. ) Exh: Exposition de 1922, Société du Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris 1922, (1896, as ‘La Feuille de vigne') Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, Oct.-Nov. Mary Boone Gallery, New York and Gallerie Michael Werner, Cologne by 1983 when mentioned in Düsseldorf exh. Saint-Maurice, Paris by 1979 when mentioned by William Camfield p.289 (see Lit. Van Heeckeren by 1946 when mentioned in Paris exh. and ‘DESSIN FRANÇAIS' lower centre Purchased from Mary Boone Gallery, New York and Michael Werner, Galerie Cologne (Grant-in-Aid) 1984 Prov: M. Enamel paint on canvas 2000 x 1600 (78 3/4 x 63) Inscribed ‘FRANCIS PICABIA' bottom centre, ‘LA | FEUILLE | DE | VIGNE' t.l.