Picabia

British

/ pikabja, pɪˈkɑːbɪə /

noun

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

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Picabia shared her extensive archives with her daughter.

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

The first show, “Sigmar Polke, Francis Picabia and Friends,” opened on Friday.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2020

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

They were visibly influenced by the idealism and playfulness that undergirded early 20th century abstraction — from cubism and Russian constructivism to Duchamp, Picabia and Léger.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 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

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