Francis Picabia
1879–1953
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In Tate Liverpool
Constellations: Max Ernst
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Francis Picabia (French: [fʁɑ̃sis pikabja]: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographist. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
Francis Picabia Otaïti
1930
Francis Picabia The Handsome Pork-Butcher
c.1924–6, c.1929–35
Francis Picabia Portrait of a Doctor
c.1935–8
Francis Picabia The Fig-Leaf
1922
Francis Picabia Alarm Clock
1919
Francis Picabia Conversation I
1922
Film and audio
Against the Avant-Garde? Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia – Part 1: Introduction
Introduction: this study day explores different ideas of avant-garde art in the early twentieth century, and in contemporary practice
Features
Tate Papers
Otaïti 1930 by Francis Picabia
Picabia’s so-called ‘transparency’ paintings – of which Otaïti is a prime example – have not been the subject of much technical ...
Tate Papers
Portrait of a Doctor c.1935–1947, by Francis Picabia
Portrait of a Doctor is actually two paintings: one was painted on top of the other at a later date ...
Tate Papers
The Fig-Leaf 1922 by Francis Picabia
A sardonic attack on censorship and prudery, The Fig-Leaf provoked the conservative art establishment when it was exhibited in 1922 ...
Tate Papers
The Handsome Pork-Butcher c.1924–6, c.1929–35 by Francis Picabia
This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects ...
Art Term
Dada
Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and ...
Tate Papers
Becoming Machine: Surrealist Automatism and Some Contemporary Instances
Involuntary Drawing
Tate Papers
An Unpublished Drawing by Duchamp: Hell in Philadelphia
This paper discusses a hitherto unpublished drawing by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) that relates to his masterwork The Bride Stripped ...
Tate Etc
Graceful enigmas: Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia
Appreciations on Duchamp, Man Ray and Picabia by Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, T.J. Demos, George Baker and Kim Knowles.
Tate Etc
'All artists are not chess players – all chess players are artists' Marcel Duchamp
Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia II
Tate Etc
Tate Etc. issue 12: Spring 2008
TATE ETC Issue 12 Spring 2008: Visiting and revisiting Art, etcetera, online edition of Tate's magazine
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