Francis Picabia

French, 1879 - 1953

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Two gears with interlocking sprockets, painted in shades of cobalt, slate, and sky blue and shown against a black background, nearly fill this abstracted, vertical work. A large gear, situated to our upper right, takes up most of the composition and extends off the top and right edges. It is marked with a number 2, and the much smaller gear, to our lower left, is labeled with a gold number 1 at its center. Circles and straight and curving lines cluster around and over the gears, and are drawn in metallic gold against the dark background but continue in black where they cross the gears. An inscription in gold capital letters across the top reads, “MACHINE TOURNEZ VITE.” In the lower left, it reads, “1 FEMME” and “2 HOMME.” The artist signed the work in lower right in metallic gold letters: “Picabia.”
Francis Picabia, Machine tournez vite (Machine Turn Quickly), 1916/1918, brush and ink with watercolor and shell gold over a 19th-century French lithographic illustration; laid down on canvas, Patrons' Permanent Fund, 1989.10.1

Machine tournez vite (Machine Turn Quickly)

Francis Picabia · 1916/1918 · brush and ink with watercolor and shell gold over a 19th-century French lithographic illustration; laid down on canvas ·  Accession ID  1989.10.1

Alberto Savinio, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis Picabia, Katharine Nash Rhoades, Agnes Ernst Meyer, Marius de Zayas, 291, No. 2, April 1915, journal with offset lithograph and pochoir illustrations, New Century Fund, 2006.25.2

291, No. 2

Alberto Savinio, Alfred Stieglitz, Francis Picabia, Katharine Nash Rhoades, Agnes Ernst Meyer, Marius de Zayas · April 1915 · journal with offset lithograph and pochoir illustrations ·  Accession ID  2006.25.2

Francis Picabia, Alfred Stieglitz, Marius de Zayas, 291, No. 5-6, July-August 1915, journal with reproductions of drawings (letterpress), New Century Fund, 2006.25.6

291, No. 5-6

Francis Picabia, Alfred Stieglitz, Marius de Zayas · July-August 1915 · journal with reproductions of drawings (letterpress) ·  Accession ID  2006.25.6

Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Francis Picabia, Katharine Nash Rhoades, Alberto Savinio, 291, No. 4, June 1915, journal with lithographs and pochoir coloring, New Century Fund, 2006.25.4

291, No. 4

Alfred Stieglitz, John Marin, Francis Picabia, Katharine Nash Rhoades, Alberto Savinio · June 1915 · journal with lithographs and pochoir coloring ·  Accession ID  2006.25.4

Alfred Stieglitz, Georges Braque, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, 291, No. 9, November 1915, journal with reproductions of drawings, New Century Fund, 2006.25.7

291, No. 9

Alfred Stieglitz, Georges Braque, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso · November 1915 · journal with reproductions of drawings ·  Accession ID  2006.25.7

Alfred Stieglitz, Pablo Picasso, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Max Jacob, 291, No. 10-11, December 1915-January 1916, journal on glossy paper with photomechanical reproductions and printed text, New Century Fund, 2006.25.5

291, No. 10-11

Alfred Stieglitz, Pablo Picasso, Marius de Zayas, Francis Picabia, Max Jacob · December 1915-January 1916 · journal on glossy paper with photomechanical reproductions and printed text ·  Accession ID  2006.25.5

Angular, geometric shapes in charcoal and smoke black, pewter and silver gray, white, pale pink, and coral orange pile up to form a rough pyramid shape that fills the height of this square, abstract painting. More fragmented shapes in cobalt, azure, and light blue fill the upper left and right corners to either side of the apex, and one triangular space on its middle left. The artist has inscribed, “LA PROCESSION SEVILLE” in black capital letters near the top right edge and “Picabia” in the lower right.
Francis Picabia, The Procession, Seville, 1912, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Fund and Gift of Barbara Rothschild Michaels from the Collection of Herbert and Nannette Rothschild, 1997, 1997.43.1

The Procession, Seville

Francis Picabia · 1912 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1997.43.1

Francis Picabia, Morning Effect on the Pond of Berre (Martigues), c. 1901/1904, etching and aquatint on wove paper, Purchased for the Virgina and Ira Jackson Collection, 2023.67.3

Morning Effect on the Pond of Berre (Martigues)

Francis Picabia · c. 1901/1904 · etching and aquatint on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2023.67.3