The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist--has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dad[...]

The artist Francis Picabia--notorious dandy, bon vivant, painter, poet, filmmaker, and polemicist--has emerged as the Dadaist with postmodern appeal, and one of the most enigmatic forces behind the enigma that was Dada. In this first book in English to focus on Picabia's work in Paris during the Dad[...]

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia (1879-1953), one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in the 1890s to his Cubist and abstract paintings [...]

Published in conjunction with the first large-scale retrospective of Picabia's work in the United States since 1970, "Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction" is a sweeping survey of the artist's profoundly innovative and influential career. Among the great modern a[...]

Limited to 500 copies, Litterature pairs excerpts from Francis Picabia's (1879-1953) novel Caravanserail with nine drawings and seventeen studies he created for the cover of Andr Breton's Litterature journal between 1922 and 1924. This beautifully produced linen-bound book--whose front cover featur[...]