Picabia

British  

/ pikabja, pɪˈkɑːbɪə /

noun

1. Francis. 1879–1953, French painter, designer, and writer, associated with the cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist movements

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Example Sentences

She could at least count on the help of her mother, Picabia, a linguistics professor who had self-published a book through Porte-Plume about their ancestors who died during the Holocaust.

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

Berest and her mother, Lélia Picabia, descended from Myriam — daughter of Ephraïm and Emma, older sister to Noémie and Jacques, and the single surviving member of the nuclear family.

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

Mr. Soulages received much-needed encouragement from avant-garde painter Francis Picabia and soon caught the attention of American curator James Johnson Sweeney, who helped bring his work to museums in New York.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2022

In 1920, Francis Picabia, a Cuban-French Dadaist would follow Duchamp’s lead and participate in a performance purposefully designed to provoke the French art world.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2018

If Stravinsky is to be claimed for the movement, Jazz has its master: it has also its petits ma�tres—Eliot, Cendrars, Picabia, and Joyce, for instance, and les six.

From Since Cézanne by Bell, Clive