Francis Picabia
1915
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23.9 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
mat: 51.7 × 41.5 cm (20 3/8 × 16 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.363
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Stieglitz Estate Number
94A
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
403

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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1991
Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, May 10–October 27, 1991
2004
Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle: 1905–1930, Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004–2005
2010
Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 57, pl. 34.
1994
Rozaitis, William. "The Joke at the Heart of Things: Francis Picabia's Machine Drawings and the Little Magazine." American Art 8: 3/4 (Summer/Fall 1994): 45.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 403.
2010
Annear, Judy, ed. Alfred Stieglitz: The Lake George Years. Exh. cat. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2010.
Wikidata ID
Q64034875
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Behind Picabia is his painting This Has to Do with Me (C’est de moi qu’il s’agit), 1914 (The Museum of Modern Art, New York), shown at 291 from 12 to 26 January 1915.
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
“Francis Picabia and His Puzzling Art: An Extremely Modernized Academician,” Vanity Fair 5:3 (November 1915): 42 (ill., Francis Picabia)