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Francis Picabia
Dada accuses you to love everything by snobism, as long as its expensive.
Francis Picabia was born in Paris in 1879. He studied to the School of decorative arts of Paris (1895-1897). His first personal exhibition was organized in 1905. He painted then neo-impressionist paintings. His meeting with Marcel Duchamp involved him in a phase Cubist and orphist. In 1912, Francis Picabia was present in the first Salon of the Golden . . .
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Les Martigues
1907 Etching in colors, aquatint, after a canvas by Francis Picabia, signed in pencil by the artist. Stamp of the publisher. Georges Petit Ed., Paris. Without
Single work 
Handwritten letter
1953 Nice original letter, unsigned, with 10 aphorisms of the artist. Without
Single work 
Portrait of a man
Circa 1940 Drawing in pencil, charcoal and stump, signed in pencil by the artist in lower right. Certificate of the Committee Picabia
Single work 
Portrait of a woman
Circa 1940 Drawing in pencil, charcoal and stump, signed in pencil by the artist in lower right. Certificate of the Committee Picabia
Single work 
Portrait of Suzanne...
1940 Drawing in pencil and stump, signed by the artist in lower right. Without
Issue "391" n° 18
1924 N° 18 of the issue "391" created by Francis Picabia. 19 numbers were published between 1917 and 1924. 5 reproduced drawings by Francis Picabia (3 in... "Picabia 391" chez Terrain Vague - Losfeld, p. 121 à 126.
Landscape
Circa 1907 Original etching, signed in pencil. Unknow
Nude study
Circa 1945 Originale drawing in China ink and pencil, signed in pencil in lower right. Certificate of authenticity by Germaine Everling Picabia dated 16/07/1970
Character, Dada...
unknown date Original drawing in China ink. This drawing will be included in the catalogue raisonné in preparation. Provenance : Pierre-André Benoit's collectionCatalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
*« Francis Picabia, monographie », M. L. Borràs, Ed. Albin Michel, Paris, 1985 *« Francis Picabia, cat. Rraisonné vol. I (1898/1914) », W. A. Camfield et autres, Ed. Fonds Mercator, 2015 All the "catalogues raisonnés"Bibliographic track & more
To read about the artist :
- « Francis Picabia et la crise des valeurs figuratives », M. Le Bot, Ed. Klincksi
- « L'Anneau de Saturne », Germaine Everling, Ed. Fayard, Paris, 1970
- « Arc en ciel, Francis Picabia », Cat. d’exposition, Ed. Galerie 1900-2000, 1983
- « Picabia », Cathy Bernheim, Ed. du Félin, coll. « Vifs », 1995
- « Francis Picabia », 2 Vol., collectif, catalogue d’exposition, Japon, 2000
- « Picabia », Alain Jouffroy, Ed. Assouline, 2002
- « Picabia, singulier idéal », Musée d’Art Moderne, SIA, Paris, 2002
- « Picabia », Serge Fauchereau, Ed. Cercle d'Art, Paris, 2002
- « F. Picabia, pionnier de l'art moderne », Cat. d'expo., Musée P.-A. Benoit, Alès, 2013
- « Francis Picabia, notre tête est… », co-ed. Kunsthaus Zurich, MOMA, Fonds Mercator, 2015
To read from the artist :
- « Picabia, écrits 1913-1920 », O. Revault d’Allonnes, Ed. P. Belfond, 1975
- « Album Francis Picabia », Olga Mohler Picabia, Ed. Fonds Mercator, 2015
Website :
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+ Stamp
Stamp by Francis Picabia
fictionnal stamp
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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Original photography
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+ Listen
Listen
+ Watch
Watch
+ Artists' viewpoints
Artists' viewpoints
It is necessary to be nomadic, to cross the ideas as we cross cities and streets. Francis Picabia
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A tribute to Francis Picabia
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A la fin de l'année 1951, la maladie prive Francis Picabia de sa source vitale, la peinture. A 74 ans, il s’éteint le 30 novembre 1953 dans la maison où il est né, 82, Rue des Petits Champs (Aujourd’hui Rue Danielle Casanova). Il repose au cimetière de Montmartre (Section 31, 18ème arrondissement, Paris) où André Breton, le 4 décembre 1953, prononce un hommage posthume : « Francis, votre peinture était la succession – souvent désespérée, néronienne – des plus belles fêtes qu’un homme se soit jamais données à soi-même... ». En hommage à sa mémoire, une fleur soleil.
"Sifflez, criez, cassez-moi la gueule et puis, et puis ? Je vous dirai encore que vous êtes tous des poires. Dans trois mois nous vous vendrons, mes amis et moi, nos tableaux pour quelques francs. / Pour que vous aimiez quelque chose il faut que vous l'ayez vu et entendu depuis longtemps tas d'idiots." - Francis Picabia
"Il faut être nomade, traverser les idées comme on traverse les pays et les villes." - Francis Picabia
"Dans mes tableaux, le public ne doit pas chercher un souvenir « photographique » d’une impression visuelle ou d’une sensation, mais il doit les regarder comme une tentative pour exprimer le plus pur de la réalité abstraite de la forme et de la couleur considérées en elles-mêmes. " - Francis Picabia
"Il faut traverser la vie, rouge, bleu, tout nu avec une musique de pêcheur subtil, prêt à l’extrême pour la fête. " - Francis Picabia
"Les surréalistes sont une vulgarisation de Picabia au même titre que Delaunay et ceux qui l’ont suivi, les futuristes, étaient une vulgarisation de Picasso." - Gertrude Stein
"On meurt en héros, ou en idiot ce qui est même chose. Le seul mot qui ne soit pas éphémère c'est le mot mort. Vous aimez la mort pour les autres." - Francis Picabia
Mouvements de l'art
- + CUBISM / 1907-1925 / Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Dufresne, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Metzinger, etc.
- + ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
- + PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN WARS / 1918-1939 / Robert Tatlin, Alexandre Rodchenko, etc.
- + DADAISM / 1916-1924 / Erwin Blumenfeld, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Janco, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taueber-Arp, etc.
- + SURREALISM / 1924-1969 / Marcel Duchamp, Dora Maar, Kurt Schwitters, Taro Okamoto, Antonio Berni, etc.
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