{"id":4114,"date":"2026-10-15T15:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/?page_id=4114"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T13:23:47","slug":"francispicabia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/picabia\/francispicabia","title":{"rendered":"Who is Francis Picabia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FRANCIS PICABIA
\nParis, 1879 \u2013 Paris, 1953<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Fran\u00e7ois Marie Martinez Picabia was born in Paris on 22 January 1879 to a Spanish father and a French mother. He moved through Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada and abstraction, reinventing his language at every stage.<\/p>\n

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Formative years (1895\u20131908)<\/h3>\n
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  • 1895\u20131897<\/strong> Attends the \u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris, then studies with Albert Charles Wallet, Ferdinand Humbert and Fernand Cormon.<\/li>\n
  • 1902\u20131903<\/strong> In the winter, begins painting in the Impressionist manner. In 1903 he exhibits for the first time at the Salon d\u2019Automne and the Salon des Ind\u00e9pendants.<\/li>\n
  • 1905<\/strong> First solo exhibition at the Galerie Haussmann, Paris.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    From the avant-gardes to abstraction (1908\u20131914)<\/h3>\n
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    • From 1908<\/strong> His works show elements of Fauvism, Neo-Impressionism, Cubism and other abstract approaches.<\/li>\n
    • 1911\u20131912<\/strong> Joins the Puteaux group and becomes friends with Marcel Duchamp and Guillaume Apollinaire.<\/li>\n
    • From 1912<\/strong> Develops a personal synthesis of Cubism and Fauvism, working in an abstract vein until the early 1920s.<\/li>\n
    • 1913<\/strong> Exhibits at the Armory Show and visits New York, where he enters the avant-garde scene. Alfred Stieglitz gives him a solo show at his gallery 291.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Dada and beyond (1915\u20131924)<\/h3>\n
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      • 1915<\/strong> Begins his mechanomorphic period. With Duchamp and other artists, he promotes and takes part in Dada events in New York.<\/li>\n
      • 1916\u20131917<\/strong> Lives in Barcelona. In 1917 he publishes his first collection of poems and the first issues of the magazine 391<\/em>, modelled on Stieglitz\u2019s 291<\/em>.<\/li>\n
      • Following years<\/strong> Takes part in the Dada movement in Zurich and Paris, causing a scandal at the Salon d\u2019Automne. As early as 1921, he accuses Dada of no longer being \u201cnew.\u201d<\/li>\n
      • 1922<\/strong> Moves to Tremblay-sur-Mauldre, near Paris, and returns to figurative painting.<\/li>\n
      • 1924<\/strong> Attacks Andr\u00e9 Breton and the Surrealists in the pages of 391<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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        Later years (1925\u20131953)<\/h3>\n
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        • 1925<\/strong> Moves to Mougins.<\/li>\n
        • 1930s<\/strong> Becomes a close friend of Gertrude Stein.<\/li>\n
        • After the Second World War<\/strong> Returns to Paris, where he resumes painting in an abstract manner and writing poetry.<\/li>\n
        • 1949<\/strong> The Galerie Ren\u00e9 Drouin in Paris dedicates a major retrospective to him (March).<\/li>\n
        • 1953<\/strong> Dies in Paris on 30 November.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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          FRANCIS PICABIA Paris, 1879 \u2013 Paris, 1953 Fran\u00e7ois Marie Martinez Picabia was born in Paris on 22 January 1879 to a Spanish father and a French mother. He moved through Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada and abstraction, reinventing his language at every stage.   Formative years (1895\u20131908) 1895\u20131897 Attends the \u00c9cole des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":4107,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"Past-Exhibitions.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[217,216,223,220,215,221,213,222,200],"class_list":["post-4114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-anne-berest","tag-arte-moderna","tag-astrattismo","tag-dadaismo","tag-francis-picabia","tag-marcel-duchamp","tag-milano","tag-parigi","tag-visionary-artists"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4114","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=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4114\/revisions\/4122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}