FRANCIS PICABIA

FRANCIS PICABIA (Paris, 1879-1953).
"Moret sur Loing", 1902.
Oil on panel.
Attached certificate issued by the Picabia Committee.
Signed and dated.
Measures: 23.5 x 31 cm 34 x 41 cm (frame).
In this work, Picabia takes a view of Moret-sur-Loing, a French commune located in the department of Seine and Marne, in the Ile-de-France region. To do this, he uses an impressionistic heritage technique, based on the use of a quick brushstroke and the light treatment of the scene.
Francis Picabia was an avant-garde French painter, poet, and typographer. After experimenting with impressionism and pointillism, Picabia became associated with cubism. His highly abstract flat compositions were colorful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the first important figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France. Later he was briefly associated with surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment. Early in his career, from 1903 to 1908, Picabia was influenced by Alfred Sisley's impressionist paintings. Beginning in 1909, it fell under the influence of the Cubists who would later form the Section d'Or. Picabia was the only member of the cubist group who personally attended the Armory Show in New York, which allowed Alfred Stieglitz to facilitate an individual exhibition, an exhibition of the New York studies by Francis Picabia, in his gallery 291 (formerly Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession) .Picabia traveled to New York City several times and actively participated in avant-garde movements, introducing modern art in America. In 1922, André Breton relaunched the Littérature magazine with cover images of Picabia, who he gave carte blanche for each issue. 1925, Picabia returned to figurative painting, and during the 1930s he became a close friend of the modernist novelist Gertrude Stein. In the early 1940s she moved to southern France, where her work took a surprising turn: she produced a series of paintings based on photos of nude glamor in French "girlie" magazines such as Paris Sex-Appeal. Before the end of the World War II, he returned to Paris, where he resumed abstract painting and poetry writing. Today his works are in important private and public collections. Highlighting places like the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Chicago Art Institute; the Tate Gallery, London; the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris; and Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands.