Artists

Francis Picabia

Press release

Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) is one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century. His career and worldview were marked by ceaseless experimentation, and his oeuvre demonstrated a rapid progression through various artistic movements, which included Impressionism, Fauvism, Dadaism and Cubism. Seeking to shed light across every area of Picabia's practice, a wide-ranging exhibition on the artist will be presented in London this spring, organized in collaboration with the Comité Picabia. Covering five decades of his career, this overview of Picabia's different eras ranges from his early landscapes, Dada works and Transparencies through to his radical nudes, realist works made during World War II and the textured abstract paintings created in his final years. Highlighting his fluid shift between figurative art and abstraction, the exhibition affirms Picabia's reputation as one of art history's most ingenious shape shifter.