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Artists›Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

1879

PaintingDadaismSurrealism

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

100

Works in Collection

199

Assets Indexed

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Movements

• Dadaism
• Surrealism

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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New Humans: Memories of the Future

New Museum

2026

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The Cubist Imprint

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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European Drawing Between the Wars

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

About

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Movement

Dadaism

Medium

Painting

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate New Museum

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Artworks (100)

A Little Solitude in the Midst of Suns (Petite solitude au milieu des soleils) from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I

1953 · One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions

composition: 19 1/2 × 14" (49.5 × 35.6 cm); sheet: 25 3/16 × 19 1/4" (64 × 48.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 11) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 9 3/4 × 7 5/16" (24.7 × 18.5 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 9) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 8 1/2 × 8 3/16" (21.6 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 7/8" (28.1 × 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 10) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 5/16 × 7 15/16" (26.2 × 20.2 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

591

1952 · Illustrated book with five offset lithographs

sheet (each approx.): 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.3 cm); overall (closed): 11 5/16 × 9 1/4 × 1/16" (28.7 × 23.5 × 0.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Le printemps (Spring) (folio 8) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 3/16 × 7 3/16" (25.8 × 18.3 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 12) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 9 3/4 × 6 3/8" (24.7 × 16.2 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (28 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 3 (page 23) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 11 5/8 × 8 7/16" (29.5 × 21.5 cm); page: 12 1/2 × 9 15/16" (31.8 × 25.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

New Museum

In collection

Tate

In collection

New Museum

Market

Auction sale history

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Auction house

Christie's

Francis Picabia

Cultural Positioning

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

Why this artist matters now

Taste overlap and adjacency

Museum Collections

Artworks (100)

Images

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Movements and affiliations

Representation & Collections

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