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Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

1879

WA-00021387

PaintingDadaismSurrealism

Representation

None documented

26

Institutional Exhibitions

100

Works in Collection

199

Assets Indexed

5

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ157321

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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New Humans: Memories of the Future

New Museum

2026

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The Cubist Imprint

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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European Drawing Between the Wars

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983–1984

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A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881�1981

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1982

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Words and Pictures

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1981

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Four Recently Discovered Picabias and Other Modern Master Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1980

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
LocationArtsy + Gallery Hauser· 85%
NationalityArtsy· 85%
BiographyGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (6)

Deitchhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/francis-picabia
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/francis-picabia
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/francis-picabia
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/francis-picabia
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/francis-picabia
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4607
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

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Movement

Dadaism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate New Museum

Canonical record

Artworks (100)

A Little Solitude in the Midst of Suns (Petite solitude au milieu des soleils) from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I

A Little Solitude in the Midst of Suns (Petite solitude au milieu des soleils) from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I

1953 · One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions

composition: 19 1/2 × 14" (49.5 × 35.6 cm); sheet: 25 3/16 × 19 1/4" (64 × 48.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 9) from 591

Plate (folio 9) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 8 1/2 × 8 3/16" (21.6 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 11 1/16 × 8 7/8" (28.1 × 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 12) from 591

Plate (folio 12) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 9 3/4 × 6 3/8" (24.7 × 16.2 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (28 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 11) from 591

Plate (folio 11) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 9 3/4 × 7 5/16" (24.7 × 18.5 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Le printemps (Spring) (folio 8) from 591

Le printemps (Spring) (folio 8) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 3/16 × 7 3/16" (25.8 × 18.3 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

591

1952 · Illustrated book with five offset lithographs

sheet (each approx.): 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.3 cm); overall (closed): 11 5/16 × 9 1/4 × 1/16" (28.7 × 23.5 × 0.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 10) from 591

Plate (folio 10) from 591

1952 · Offset lithograph from an illustrated book with five offset lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 5/16 × 7 15/16" (26.2 × 20.2 cm); sheet: 11 × 8 3/4" (27.9 × 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 3 (page 23) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Plate 3 (page 23) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 11 5/8 × 8 7/16" (29.5 × 21.5 cm); page: 12 1/2 × 9 15/16" (31.8 × 25.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 1 (page 11) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Plate 1 (page 11) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 11/16 × 8 3/16" (27.1 × 20.8 cm); page: 12 1/2 × 9 13/16" (31.8 × 24.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Duplicate of plate 2 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Duplicate of plate 2 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 7 3/8 × 11 5/8" (18.8 × 29.5 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 × 12 1/2" (25 × 31.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Duplicate of plate 6 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Duplicate of plate 6 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.5 × 21.5 cm); sheet: 12 3/8 × 10" (31.5 × 25.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Duplicate of plate 4 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Duplicate of plate 4 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 1/2 × 8 3/16" (26.6 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 12 9/16 × 9 15/16" (31.9 × 25.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Duplicate of plate 5 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Duplicate of plate 5 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.4 × 21.4 cm); sheet: 12 3/8 × 9 15/16" (31.5 × 25.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Duplicate of plate 1 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Duplicate of plate 1 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 11/16 × 8 3/16" (27.1 × 20.8 cm); sheet: 12 9/16 × 9 1/2" (31.9 × 24.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

page (each approx.): 12 1/2 × 9 3/4" (31.8 × 24.8 cm); overall (closed): 12 15/16 × 10 3/8 × 11/16" (32.8 × 26.4 × 1.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 4 (page 27) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Plate 4 (page 27) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 1/2 × 8 3/16" (26.6 × 20.8 cm); page: 12 11/16 × 9 3/4" (32.2 × 24.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Duplicate of plate 3 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Duplicate of plate 3 from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 11 5/8 × 8 7/16" (29.5 × 21.5 cm); sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 3/4" (31.3 × 24.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 2 (page 17) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Plate 2 (page 17) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 7 3/8 × 11 5/8" (18.8 × 29.5 cm); page: 9 7/8 × 12 5/8" (25.1 × 32 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 6 (page 37) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Plate 6 (page 37) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.5 × 21.5 cm); page: 12 11/16 × 9 7/8" (32.3 × 25.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate 5 (page 33) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

Plate 5 (page 33) from Janela do caos (Window of Chaos)

1949 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with six lithographs and a supplementary suite of six lithographs

plate: 10 13/16 × 8 7/16" (27.4 × 21.4 cm); page: 12 5/8 × 9 3/4" (32 × 24.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of a Couple

Portrait of a Couple

1942 · Oil on board

41 5/8 x 30 1/2" (105.7 x 77.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait of a Doctor

Portrait of a Doctor

1935 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 920 x 728 x 18 mm frame: 1117 x 924 x 50 mm

1935 · Oil on paperboard

19 x 14 1/2 in. (48.3 x 36.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Duplicate of L'infinité de Dieu (The Infinity of God) from Le Peseur d'âmes (The Weigher of Souls)

Duplicate of L'infinité de Dieu (The Infinity of God) from Le Peseur d'âmes (The Weigher of Souls)

1931 · Lithograph from the supplementary suite of an illustrated book with nine lithographs and a supplementary suite of nine lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 1/8 × 8 11/16" (25.7 × 22 cm); sheet: 11 1/8 × 8 13/16" (28.2 × 22.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

100 published of 195 catalogued · 171 with image

MoMA
85 publishedof 170 catalogued153 img
The Met
7 published
Tate
6 published6 img
Art Institute Chicago
2 publishedof 12 catalogued12 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 3)

3 entries · 1 sources

Otaïti
1930 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Handsome Pork-Butcher
1924 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The Fig-Leaf
1922 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Images

Francis Picabia (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Edtaonisl (Ecclesiastic) (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

8

Movements2

Dadaism Surrealism

Collections6

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art New Museum Tate Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

New Museum

In collection

Tate

In collection

New Museum

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction