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Picabia
Francis Picabia 1879-1953
Francis Picabia - Self portrait (1903)
(paintings from various periods - source: YouTube)
Dadart and the Centre du XXe Siècle are selling a photocopied reprint (with Picabia's permission) of his famous dada periodical, 391, with its critical apparatus, in two volumes, for 40 euros + postage.
391 n° 6 - Américaine
Francis Picabia at the wheel of one of his many automobiles.
Francis Picabia - Villica-Caja in 1929
 
In October 1964, the Editions du Temps published the first comprehensive monograph on Francis Picabia, now out of print. On December 4th of that year, friends and relatives of Francis gathered around the author, Michel Sanouillet, at the Galerie Carré, to sign the first copy. Among them were: René Clair, Max Ernst, Gabrielle Buffet-Picaba, Olga Picabia, Jeannine Bailly-Cowell Picabia, Jean et Marguerite Arp, Simone Breton-Collinet, Robert Valançay, Rodrigo de Zayas, Maurice Henry, Frédéric Deloffre, Camille Bryen, André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Jean-Jacques Lebel.
Paintings and drawings from the Dada period
The Handsome Pork Butcher
A talking video from the Tate Gallery.
The Handsome Pork Butcher wittily lampoons the conventions of traditional academic portrait painting. Rejecting grandiose settings and noble poses, this work was originally composed of household paint and sewing ephemera. Later Picabia substantially reworked the painting, creating a more complex image by superimposing a female face onto the original male portrait and replacing the variety of collage elements with just combs. Painted towards the end of his association with the Dada movement, this work demonstrates Picabia’s ability to combine artistic innovation with social satire.
Catch as Catch Can (1913)
Parade
L'Enfant carburateur
Tournez rare (1919)
Sold by:
Sotheby's on December 9, 2009 for 504.750 Euros (750.111 US$)
Having belonged to: Marcel Duchamp, Paris (Hôtel Drouot, Tableaux, aquarelles
et dessins par Francis Picabia appartenant à M. Duchamp, March 8, 1926)
André Breton, Paris
Simone Collinet, Paris (Galerie Furstenberg)
Matta, Paris (bought from Mme Collinet in the late 1950's)
Ici, c'est ici Stieglitz foi et amour
Réveil matin
Very Rare Picture on Earth
Voilà ELLE - (Mecanomorphic portrait)
Petite Udnie (1913)
Udnie (1913)
L'Oeil cacodylate
La Feuille de vigne (1922)
Picabia painted The Fig-Leaf using glossy household paint over another work entitled Hot Eyes. The original painting, which was based on a technical drawing of a turbine brake, caused a scandal when submitted for an important Paris exhibition in 1921. The figure in the new image is derived from Oedipus and the Sphinx (1808), a neo-classical painting by Ingres, with Picabia's addition of a fig-leaf (the French say 'vine leaf') as a reference to censorship. The inscription DESSIN FRANÇAIS ('French drawing') sarcastically mocked the contemporary revival of interest in traditional art skills.
Femme aux allumettes (1920)
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