Francis Picabia in his studio.

Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 438 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (749 × 1024 pixel, file size: 158 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Francis Picabia (1879-1953), french painter File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 438 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (749 × 1024 pixel, file size: 158 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Francis Picabia (1879-1953), french painter File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects... January 28 is the 28th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1879 (MDCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...

Born in Paris, he studied at École des Beaux-Arts and École des Arts Decoratifs. In the beginning of his career, from 1903 to 1908, he was influenced by the impressionist painting of Alfred Sisley. From 1909, he came under the influence of the cubists and the Golden Section (Section d'Or). City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... École des Beaux-Arts (IPA ) refers to several art schools in France. ... 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. ... Image:Alfred Sisley-Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne. ... 1909 (MCMIX) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Section dOr was a Paris-based collective of Cubist painters that was active from 1912 to around 1914. ...

Around 1911 he joined the Puteaux Group, which met at the studio of Jacques Villon in the village of Puteaux. There he became friends with artist Marcel Duchamp. Some of the group's members were, Apollinaire, Albert Gleizes, Roger de La Fresnaye, Fernand Leger and Jean Metzinger. 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ... The Puteaux Group is the name applied to a group of European artists and critics associated with Cubism but because of their unique style, were branded a Cubist offshoot called Orphism. ... Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 - June 9, 1963) was a French Cubist painter and printmaker. ... Marcel Duchamp. ... Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918) was a poet, writer, and art critic. ... Albert Gleizes, born December 8, 1881 _ died June 23, 1953 was a French painter. ... Artillery, 1911. ... Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (February 4, 1881 - August 17, 1955) was an artist. ... At the Cycle-Race Track, 1912, Peggy Guggenheim Collection. ...

From 1913 to 1915 Picabia traveled to New York City several times and took active part in the avant-garde movements, introducing modern art to America. These years can be characterized as Picabia's proto-Dada period, consisting mainly of his portraits mécaniques. Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar). ... Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC, City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1676 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area... Modern art is a general term used for most of the artistic production from the late 19th century until approximately the 1970s. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...

Francis Picabia, Machine Turn Quickly, 1916-1918, oil on canvas, Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art

Later, in 1916, while in Barcelona he started his well-known Dada periodical 391, in which he published his first mechanical drawings. He continued the periodical with the help of Duchamp in America. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 389 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (454 × 700 pixel, file size: 129 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The artist died in 1953 and his works will be public domain 2023. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 389 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (454 × 700 pixel, file size: 129 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) The artist died in 1953 and his works will be public domain 2023. ... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... The West building of the National Gallery of Art with the East building visible behind and to to the left The National Gallery of Art is an art museum, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The museum was established in 1937 by the Congress, with funds for... 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name Barcelona (Catalan) Spanish name Barcelona Nickname Ciutat Comtal (Catalan) Ciudad Condal (Spanish) Postal code 08001–08080 Area code 34 (Spain) + 93 (Barcelona) Website http://www. ... Cover of the first edition of the publication, Dada. ...

Picabia continued his involvement in the Dada movement through 1919 in Zürich and Paris, before breaking away from it after developing an interest in Surrealist art. (See Cannibale, 1921.) Again he changed his style in 1925, when he returned to figurative painting. Year 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ... View of the inner city with the four main churches visible, and the Albis in the backdrop Zürich (German: , Zürich German: Züri , French: , in English generally Zurich, Italian: ) is the largest city in Switzerland (population: 366,145 in 2004; population of urban area: 1,091,732) and... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Yves Tanguy Indefinite Divisibility 1942 Surrealism[1] is a movement stating that the liberation of our mind, and subsequently the liberation of the individual self and society, can be achieved by exercising the imaginative faculties of the unconscious mind to the attainment of a dream-like state different from, or... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for full calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Francis Picabia, Hera, c. 1929, oil on cardboard, 105 x 75 cm, private collection

During the 1930s, he became a close friend of Gertrude Stein. In the early 1940s he moved to the south of France, where his work took a surprising turn - he produced a series of paintings based on the nude and glamour photos in French "Girlie" magazines, in a garish style which appears to subvert traditional, academic nude painting. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 433 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (566 × 783 pixel, file size: 52 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Hera. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 433 × 599 pixel Image in higher resolution (566 × 783 pixel, file size: 52 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)Hera. ... 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 29, 1946) was an American writer and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in France. ...

Before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Francis Picabia Ridens, c. 1929, gouache and watercolor on cardboard, 104 x 74 cm, private collection

He had love affairs with dancers whom he painted. "I see again in my memory my dear udnie" for example, is a painting and an ode to a dancer he was involved with. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (552x784, 65 KB)Francis Picabia, Ridens, (c. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (552x784, 65 KB)Francis Picabia, Ridens, (c. ...

A large amount of his work involves the mechanical representation of people.

Francis Picabia, Self-Portrait, c. 1923, ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm, private collection

A large retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie René Drouin in Paris in the spring of 1949. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... {{year nav|1939 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... Retrospective (from Latin retrospectare, look back) generally means to take a look back at events that already have taken place. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

Picabia loved fast automobiles and is said to have owned as many as one hundred and fifty of them.

Francis Picabia died in Paris in 1953 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre. Cimetière de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. ...

In recent years, a Picabia painting has sold for as much as $1.6 million.^{[citation needed]} ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory[1], the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...

Professor George Baker of UCLA has a book coming out in the near future on Picabia's art.

External links

• Extensive Picabia website
• Comité Picabia Site of the organization developing a catalogue raisonné of the artist
• Picabia art and biography
• Picabia images at CGFA
• Scans of Picabia's publication, 391
• 391.org, contemporary dada publication following Picabia's 391
• After 391: Picabia's early multimedia experiments Short essay
• Dada Movement in the MoMA Online Collection