Francis PICABIA (1879-1953)

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Francis PICABIA (1879-1953)
Untitled (Man Holding a Severed Head), ca. 1926 Pencil on paper Signed lower right Pencil on paper, signed lower right 24 x 18,5 cm - 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. This work will be included in the Francis Picabia catalogue raisonné that the Picabia Committee is currently preparing. A notice of inclusion, dated June 29, 2021, will be given to the buyer. PROVENANCE Private collection, France "The Cuban painter always lavishes the richness, variety and fantasy of a painful vision of his own dreams. At each of his manifestations, he renews himself; but if he pretends to confuse us, we still find him easily. For his deep vision eliminates nothing and the ghosts of his Spanish girls float deep in the hallucinations of his bestiary, which now seems familiar and as if softened. The technique is always masterful, as much by the art of the colorist as by the very advanced science of the drawing. But Mr. Picabia is not only a picture-maker who succeeds in fixing his most fleeting visions; he is at times a painter whose sarcasm and bitterness cannot steal the force of thought. L'Ombre is a sober and powerful work which perhaps announces an evolution that could lead its author very high. For, in the words of Pascal: "To mock philosophy is really to philosophize." "Chronicle of Parisian Life," in The New York Herald, European Edition of the New York Herald Tribune, October 28, 1928, #15,002, p. 6
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