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Francis Picabia, Self-Portrait, c. 1923, ink on paper, 25 x 21 cm, private collection.

Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia (January 28, 1879 - November 30, 1953) was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France.

Born in Paris, he studied at École des Beaux-Arts and École des Arts Decoratifs. In the beginning of his career, from 1903 to 1908, he was influenced by the impressionist painting of Alfred Sisley. From 1909, he came under the influence of the cubists and the Golden Section (Section d'Or).

Around 1911 he joined the Puteaux Group, which met at the studio of Jacques Villon in the village of Puteaux. There he became friends with artist Marcel Duchamp. Some of the group's members were, Apollinaire, Albert Gleizes, Roger de La Fresnaye, Fernand Leger and Jean Metzinger.

Francis Picabia, Machine Turn Quickly, 1916-1918, oil on canvas, Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art.

From 1913 to 1915 Picabia traveled to New York City several times and took active part in the avant-garde movements, introducing modern art to America. These years can be characterized as Picabia's proto-Dada period, consisting mainly of his portraits mécaniques. Later, in 1916, while in Barcelona he started his well-known Dada periodical 391, in which he published his first mechanical drawings. He continued the periodical with the help of Duchamp in America.

Francis Picabia, Hera, c. 1929, oil on cardboard, 105 x 75 cm, private collection.

Picabia continued his involvement in the Dada movement through 1919 in Zürich and Paris, before breaking away from it after developing an interest in Surrealist art. (See Cannibale, 1921.) Again he changed his style in 1925, when he returned to figurative painting.

During the 1930s, he became a close friend of Gertrude Stein. In the early 1940s he moved to the South of France, where his work took a surprising turn - he produced a series of paintings based on the nude and glamour photos in French "Girlie" magazines, in a garish style which appears to subvert traditional, academic nude painting. Before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry.

He had love affairs with dancers which he painted. "I see again in my memory my dear udnie" for example, is a painting and ode to a dancer he was involved with

A large amount of his work involves the mechanical representation of people

A large retrospective of his work was held at the Galerie René Drouin in Paris in spring 1949.

In addition to artistic activities, Picabia was a significant collector of automobiles, owning as many as 150 of them.

Francis Picabia died in Paris in 1953 and was interred in the Cimetière de Montmartre.

In recent years, a Picabia painting has sold for as much as $1.6 million.

The Picabia Nudes can be seen in an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi in London. www.hauserwirth.com

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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Dec 21 11:33 AM

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