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Francis Picabia (French, 1879-1953)
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Francis Picabia
L' Espagnole 1938
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Biography |
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1879 |
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Born: in Paris, France |
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1895 - 1897 |
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Studied art at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France |
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1911 - 1912 |
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Associated with the Puteaux group |
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1916 - 1917 |
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Lived in Barcelona, Spain |
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1917 |
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Published his first volume of poetry and the first issues of 391, his magazine modeled after Stieglitz’s periodical 291 |
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1924 |
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Attacked André Breton and the Surrealists in 391 |
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1953 |
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Died: in Paris, France |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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"Paintings and Works on Paper", Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA (solo)
"Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture", National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C |
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2008 |
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"Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia", Londres, UK, 2008
Galerie Saint-Valentin, Paris, France
"Francis Picabia Late Paintings", Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2006 |
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"Francis Picabia: Works on Paper 1901-1951", Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2002 |
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"Francis Picabia, Singulier Idéal", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo) |
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2000 |
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"Francis Picabia", Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1999 |
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"Francis Picabia", Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (traveled to: Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan, Kintetsu Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (solo) |
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1998 |
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"Francis Picabia, les Nus et la méthode", Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (traveled to the Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva, Switzerland) (solo) |
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1997 |
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"Francis Picabia antologia", Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
"Francis Picabia: Das Spätwerk, 1933-1953", Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (taveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands) (solo)
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1996 |
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"Francis Picabia galerie Dalmau, 1922", Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo) |
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1995 |
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"Francis Picabia, Maquinas y Españolas", IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain (traveled to the Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain) (solo)
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1991 |
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"Picabia et La Côte d’Azur", Musée d’Art Moderne de d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (solo) |
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1988 |
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"Picabia 1879 – 1953", Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (traveled to Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (solo) |
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1986 |
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"Francis Picabia, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Nimes, France (solo) |
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1985 |
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"Francis Picabia, Exposicion antologica", Salas Pablo Ruiz Picasso del Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, Spain (traveled to the Centre de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain) (solo) |
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1984 |
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"Picabia", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Francis Picabia, The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu, Takanawa, Japan (solo) |
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1983 |
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"Francis Picabia", Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
"Picabia 1879 – 1953", Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium (solo) |
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1980 |
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"Picabia, Dandy et Heraut de l’art du XXe siecle", Palais des Congrès, Paris, France (solo) |
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1976 |
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"Francis Picabia", Musée National d’art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France (solo) |
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1974 |
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"Francis Picabia", Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy (solo) |
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1970 |
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"Francis Picabia", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (traveled to Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI) (solo) |
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1967 |
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"Picabia", Städtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (solo) |
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1964 |
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"Francis Picabia", Galerie Furstenberg, Paris, France (solo) |
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1962 |
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"Picabia", Musée Cantini, Marseille, France (solo) |
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1961 |
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"Picabia vu en transparence", Galerie Mona Lisa, Paris, France (solo) |
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1956 |
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"Exposition Picabia", Galerie Furstenberg, Paris, France (solo) |
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1949 |
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"Retrospective", Galerie René Drouin, Paris, France (solo) |
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1933 |
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Galerie Vignon, Paris, France |
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1928 |
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Galerie Theophile Briant, Paris, France |
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1923 |
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Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France |
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1922 |
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Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, Spain |
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1921 |
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Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France |
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1913 |
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Armory Show, New York, NY
Gallery 291, New York, NY (solo)
Salon d'Automne, Paris, France |
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1912 |
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Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, France |
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1911 |
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Salon d'Automne, Paris, France
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France |
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1909 |
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Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, France |
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1905 |
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Galerie Haussmann, Paris, France (solo) |
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1899 |
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Salon des Artistes Français, Paris, France |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain
Tate Gallery, London, UK |
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Literature |
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2003 |
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Jouffroy, Alain. Picabia. New York, NY: Assouline, 2003 |
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1989 |
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Wilson, Sarah. Francis Picabia: Accommodations of Desire 1924-1932. New York NY : Kent Gallery Inc., 1989 |
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1979 |
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Camfield, W.A. Francis Picabia. His Art, Life and Times. Princeton: 1979 |
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