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Francis PicabiaWW-1915-064843

1915·Letterpress and offset lithography on ivory wove paper·Sight: 86 × 43.5 cm (33 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.)

<p>In 1915, Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist, theorist, and gallery owner, planned a new publication called 291 after Alfred Stieglitz's influential gallery of the same name. The magazine was inspired by de Zayas' s discoveries in France during 1914 of Italian Futurist and French concrete poetry and typography. The focus of 291 was modem art, satire, and critism. Francis Picabia, who helped create 291, guest-edited the July-August 1915 issue exhibited here. This issue contains reproductions of five drawings by Picabia based on this theme of symbolizing individuals as machines. This print is a portrait of Alfred Stieglitz.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1915
Medium: Letterpress and offset lithography on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: Sight: 86 × 43.5 cm (33 7/8 × 17 3/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Francis Picabia

Artist

Francis Picabia

Painting

F rancis Picabia, born in 1879 in Paris, was a relentlessly experimental modernist who moved fluidly through Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism, helping shape key avant-garde movements alongside figures like Duchamp and Man Ray. Though his reputation waned late in life, major retrospectives and museum acquisitions have cemented his status as a pivotal precursor to post-modernism.

Paris, France

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