Representative work by Francis Picabia
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Artist

Francis Picabia

1879–1953 · French

  • École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
  • Collège Stanislas de Paris
  • Académie de La Palette

Francis Picabia repeatedly changed styles, moving through Impressionist beginnings, Cubist and Orphist abstraction, mechanomorphic Dada images, the Transparencies and later figurative paintings based on mass-media sources.

Painting; drawing; publishing; poetry

Major Works

  • 1913Udnie
  • 1913Edtaonisl
  • 1915Ici, c’est ici Stieglitz
  • 1917Parade Amoureuse
  • 1919Balance
  • 1919The Child Carburetor
  • 1922Spanish Night
  • 1929Hera
  • 1941–42Adoration of the Calf
  • 1942–43Portrait of a Couple

Interviews & Writing

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