Picabia is a novel rewritten by himself, an elusive painter, seducer, story-teller and mocker who alternately calls himself "Funny-Guy", "Pharamousse" or "Loustic".
How François-Marie Martinez de Picabia y Davanne, born on January 22, 1879 in Paris, at 82, rue des Petits-Champs, immediately became Francis (like his father, Francisco) Picabia (Basque name of his maternal grandmother) , it is the beginning of a swirling and creative life where art refuses any label.
"All conviction is a disease"
, said this tempestuous artist towards the avant-gardes.
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Picabia is the marriage of opposites.
From
Udnie
, an enormous Orphic canvas from 1913 that depicts a dancer in movement and glory from Beaubourg, to its famous transparencies as
Adam and Eve
from 1931, so different from the
Adam and Eve
from 1911 at the MoMA in New York.
With knowledge full of humour, Bernard Marcadé dissects it as an art historian in
Francis Picabia, Rastaquouère
, title tribute to Serge Gainsbourg, amateur of the painter...
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