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Francis Picabia, Mardi gras (Le Baiser), ca. 1924\u201325 Ripolin and oil on canvas Courtesy Natalie Seroussi \u00a9 Natalie Seroussi<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
The largest exhibition ever held in Italy on Francis Picabia.<\/h3>\n
Picabia. Opening the Doors of the Night<\/strong> Francis Picabia (1879-1953) is one of the most original and influential figures in twentieth-century art. Over 170 works from leading European museums and major international collections guide visitors through an immersive, sensory journey across the hours of the night. Love, dance, music, Spanish roots, the experience of war and collective creation: the themes of an artist who moved through Impressionism, Cubism and Dada without ever settling, constantly reinventing himself. The show also features the thirteen \u201cBlack Albums\u201d and previously unseen archival material. <\/p>\n Promoted by the City of Milan \u2013 Culture and co-produced by Palazzo Reale and MADEINART, with the patronage of the Consulate General of France and the Institut Fran\u00e7ais, the exhibition is curated by Anne Berest Picabia<\/strong>, writer and the artist\u2019s great-granddaughter. She is the co-author of Gabri\u00eble<\/em>, the acclaimed book that offers an intimate portrait of Francis Picabia through the life of his wife, Gabri\u00eble Buffet-Picabia, great-grandmother of the authors. The book was selected by the New York Times<\/em> as one of the ten best works of historical non-fiction of 2025.<\/p>\n Why Visit?<\/strong><\/p>\n The largest Picabia exhibition ever held in Italy.<\/strong> Over 170 works from leading European museums and international collections, brought together in Milan.<\/p>\n Masterpieces rarely seen together.<\/strong> Salicis<\/em>, Balance<\/em>, Femmes au bull-dog<\/em> and Mardi gras (Le Baiser)<\/em> sit alongside Picabia\u2019s earliest known work, from 1898, shown only once before, in Turin in 1974.<\/p>\n An immersive journey, not a classic retrospective.<\/strong> The show moves through the hours of the night, each tied to a theme: passionate love, dance, music, Spanish roots, war and collective creation.<\/p>\n Never-before-seen archives.<\/strong> The thirteen \u201cBlack Albums\u201d open the exhibition, with rare photographs, letters and personal documents, some shown to the public for the first time.<\/p>\n A curator who knows him from within.<\/strong> Anne Berest Picabia is the artist\u2019s great-granddaughter, and her book Gabri\u00eble<\/em>was named by the New York Times<\/em> one of the ten best works of historical non-fiction of 2025.<\/p>\n An artist for today.<\/strong> Picabia moved through Impressionism, Cubism and Dada without ever settling into one label, and anticipated questions that still shape contemporary art.<\/p>\n 📍 Location:<\/strong> Palazzo Reale Milano<\/a> <\/p>\n INFORMATIONS Press Office Comune di Milano Press Office: Press Office Skira Elisa Fusi Ilaria Chiodi The largest exhibition ever held in Italy on Francis Picabia. Picabia. Opening the Doors of the Night Palazzo Reale, Milan \u00b7 9 October 2026 \u2013 24 January 2027 Francis Picabia (1879-1953) is one of the most original and influential figures in twentieth-century art. Over 170 works from leading European museums and major international collections guide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4110,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"Past-Exhibitions.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[217,185,216,196,34,215,198,213,219,218,214,212],"class_list":["post-4107","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anne-berest","tag-art","tag-arte-moderna","tag-cultural-events-in-italy","tag-exhibition","tag-francis-picabia","tag-immersive-art-exhibition","tag-milano","tag-mostre-autunno-2026","tag-mostre-milano","tag-palazzo-reale","tag-things-to-do-in-milan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4107\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPalazzo Reale, Milan \u00b7 9 October 2026 \u2013 24 January 2027<\/p>\n
\n📅 Dates:<\/strong> 09.10.2026 – 24.01.2027
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