Francis Picabia

1915

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image shows a man from the waist up, seated and slightly leaning forward with his hands clasped. His facial features include a clean-shaven face with a direct gaze toward the camera, and he has sleek, combed-back hair. He is wearing a suit with a light-colored shirt and a dark bow tie. The man is seated in a wooden chair, and the background appears to be a softly blurred, light-toned, and patterned wall, suggesting an indoor setting.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • 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 Number

    1949.3.363

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    94A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    403

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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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)

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