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Picabia

/ pikabja, pɪˈkɑːbɪə /

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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A show that started with pictures might make you come to wonder — following the pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin — why Picasso’s paintings of women are generally lacking in desire, quite unlike the pervy paintings of Balthus, Picabia and other cancelable midcentury gents.

Myriam, Berest’s grandmother, had married their son, Vincente, and survived the war with help from the Picabia clan.

Picabia is a prominent character in “The Postcard,” and much of the story is told through fictionalized conversations between her and Berest.

Then Berest turned to her own family history: In 2017, she and her sister Claire, also a writer, wrote a biography of the artist and critic Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, their great-grandmother, who was married to the Spanish painter Francis Picabia.

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.

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