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

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

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

From New York Times • May 15, 2023

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