List of works by Francis Picabia
Appearance
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This is a list of works by Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953), French avant-garde artist, painter, poet and typographist, whose work is associated with Cubism, Abstract art, Dada and Surrealism.[1]
Artworks
[edit]Painting | Name | French name | Year | Technique | Dimensions | City | Gallery | Notes | |
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Caoutchouc | c. 1909 | Watercolor, gouache, and ink on cardboard | 47.5 x 61.5 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | |||
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Horses | Chevaux | 1910-11 | Oil on canvas | 73.3 x 92.5 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | ||
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Landscape at Cassis | Paysage à Cassis | c.1910-11 | Oil on canvas | 50.3 × 61.5 cm | Private collection | |||
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Grimaldi after the rain | Grimaldi après la pluie | c. 1912 | ||||||
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The Red Tree | L'Arbre rouge (Grimaldi après la pluie) | c.1912 | Oil on canvas | 92.5 x 73.4 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | ||
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The Red Tree | L'Arbre rouge (Grimaldi après la pluie) | c.1912 | Oil on canvas | 92.5 x 73.4 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | ||
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Tarentelle | 1912 | Oil on canvas | 73.6 x 92.1 cm | New York City | Museum of Modern Art | |||
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The Procession, Seville | La Procession, Seville | 1912 | Oil on canvas | 121.9 x 121.9 cm | Washington DC | National Gallery of Art | ||
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The Dance at the Spring | La danse au printemps | 1912 | Oil on canvas | 120.5 x 120.6 cm | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Museum of Art | ||
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Edtaonisl | Ecclesiastic | 1913 | Oil on canvas | 300.4 x 300.7 cm | Chicago | Art Institute of Chicago | ||
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Catch as Catch Can | La Source | 1913 | Oil on canvas | 105.4 x 86.4 cm | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Museum of Art | ||
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Udnie (Young American Girl, The Dance) | Udnie (Jeune fille américaine, danse) | 1913 | Oil on canvas | 290 x 300 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | ||
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Star Dancer on a Transatlantic Steamer | 1913 | Watercolor | ||||||
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Cosmic Force | Force Comique | 1913–14 | Watercolor and graphite on paper | 63.4 x 52.7 cm | Pittsfield, Massachusetts | Berkshire Museum | ||
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Girl Born Without a Mother | Fille née sans mère | 1915 | Published in 291 (magazine) | 47.4 x 31.7 cm | Paris | Musée d'Orsay | ||
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(Left) Le saint des saints c'est de moi qu'il s'agit dans ce portrait, 1 July 1915; (center) Portrait d'une jeune fille americaine dans l'état de nudité, 5 July 1915: (right) J'ai vu et c'est de toi qu'il s'agit, De Zayas! De Zayas! Je suis venu sur les rivages du Pont-Euxin, New York, 1915 | 1915 | |||||||
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Ici, c'est ici Stieglitz, foi et amour | 1915 | Published cover of 291 (magazine), No. 1 | ||||||
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Voilà Haviland (la poésie est comme lui), Portrait mécanomorphe de Paul B. Haviland | 1915 | |||||||
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Machine Turn Quickly | Machine, Tournez Vite | 1916 | Tempera on paper | 49 x 32 cm | Private collection | |||
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Universal Prostitution | Prostitution Universelle | 1916–17 | Black ink, tempera, metallic paint on cardboard | 74.5 x 94.2 cm | New Haven CT. | Yale University Art Gallery | ||
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Flamenca | Flamenca | 1917 | Published in 391 (magazine) | |||||
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Lampe Illusion | 1917 | Published in 391 (magazine) | ||||||
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Marie, Barcelone | 1917 | Published in 391 (magazine). No 3, March 1 | ||||||
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Peigne, Miroir de l'Apparence | 1917 | Published in 391 (magazine), No. 2, February 10 | ||||||
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Américaine | 1917 | Published in 391 (magazine), No. 6, July | ||||||
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Âne | 1917 | Published in 391 (magazine), No. 6, July | ||||||
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Molèculaire | 1919 | Published in 391 (magazine), No. 8, February | ||||||
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Danse de Saint-Guy | 1919 | Published in The Little Review, Autumn 1922 | ||||||
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Alarm Clock | Réveil Matin | 1919 | Published in Dada, 4-5, Number 5, 15 May | |||||
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Alarm Clock | Réveil Matin | 1919 | Ink on paper | 31.8 x 23 cm | London | Tate | ||
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Dada Movement | 1919 | Published in Dada, 4-5, Number 5, 15 May | ||||||
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Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Renoir, Portrait of Rembrandt | 1920 | Toy monkey and oil on cardboard | Reproduced in Cannibale, Paris, n. 1, April 25 | Whereabouts unknown | ||||
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Francis chante le Coq | 1920 | Published in 391 (magazine) | ||||||
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Ce numéro est entouré d'une dentelle rose. | 1920 | Published in 391 (magazine), No. 13 | ||||||
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The Blessed Virgin | La Sainte Vierge | 1920 | Ink and graphite on paper. Published in Dada, 4-5, Number 5, 15 May | 33 x 24 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | ||
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L'oeil cacodylate | 1921 | Oil and collage on canvas | 148.6 x 117.4 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou | |||
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Optophone I | 1919 | Watercolor and graphite on paper | 72 x 60 cm | |||||
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Phosphate | 1922 | Published in Littérature magazine, No. 6, New Series, 1 November | ||||||
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Aviation | 1922 | Ink, crayon, watercolor on paper | 79.9 x 54 cm | Providence, Rhode Island | RISD Museum | |||
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Astrolabe | 1922 | Galeries Dalmau exhibition catalogue | ||||||
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Thermomètre pour aveugles | 1922 | Galeries Dalmau exhibition catalogue | ||||||
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Femme Espagnole (Espagnole à la cigarette) | 1922 | Watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper | 72 x 51 cm |
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Allan, Kenneth R. “Metamorphosis in 391: A Cryptographic Collaboration by Francis Picabia, Man Ray, and Erik Satie.” Art History 34, No. 1 (February, 2011): 102-125.
- Baker, George. The Artwork Caught by the Tail: Francis Picabia and Dada in Paris. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-262-02618-5)
- Borràs, Maria Lluïsa. Picabia. Trans. Kenneth Lyons. New York: Rizzoli, 1985.
- Calté, Beverly and Arnauld Pierre. Francis Picabia. Tokyo: APT International, 1999.
- Camfield, William. Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
- Hopkins, David. “Questioning Dada’s Potency: Picabia’s ‘La Sainte Vierge’ and the Dialogue with Duchamp.” Art History 15, No. 3 (September 1992): 317-333.
- Legge, Elizabeth. “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Virgin: Francis Picabia’s La Sainte Vierge.” Word & Image 12, No. 2 (April–June 1996): 218-242.
- Page, Suzanne, William Camfield, Annie Le Brun, Emmanuelle de l’Ecotais, et al., Francis Picabia: Singulier ideal. Paris: Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2002.
- Picabia, Francis. I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry Prose, and Provocation. Trans. Marc Lowenthal, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. (ISBN 978-0-262-16243-2)
- Pierre, Arnauld. Francis Picabia: La peinture sans aura. Paris: Gallimard, 2002.
- Wilson, Sarah. "Francis Picabia: Accommodations of Desire - Transparencies 1924-1932." New York: Kent Fine Art, 1989. (ISBN 1-878607-04-9)
External links
[edit]- Comité Picabia; the organization developing a catalogue raisonné of the artist
- Picabia images at CGFA
- Scans of Picabia's publication, 391
- After 391: Picabia's early multimedia experiments Short essay
- Dada Movement in the MoMA Online Collection