Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonné

Volume Three: 1927–1939

Beverley Calté, William A. Camfield, Candace Clements , Arnauld Pierre

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Yale University Press
23 April 2019

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

This third volume in a planned four-volume catalogue raisonné of works by the French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879–1953) includes paintings and selected drawings dating from mid-1927 through 1939. Innovative collage-paintings and flamboyant figural compositions known as “monsters” that dominated Picabia’s output in the mid-1920s gave way, during 1927, to new artistic directions. The most important of these was an exploration of the concept of transparency in many forms, first through the addition of new elements to his own pre-existing works, then through the tangled compositions he called “transparencies,” superimposing outlined figures, animals, plants, and other motifs. Picabia’s production during this period also encompassed imposing, representational compositions with firmly contoured and solidly colored forms, thickly painted topographical landscapes, curvilinear abstractions, and toward the end, photo-based figural paintings foreshadowing his notorious painted nudes of the early 1940s.

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Contributions by: Beverley Calté, William A. Camfield, Candace Clements, Arnauld Pierre
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 241mm, Spine: 4mm
Weight: 3.317kg
ISBN: 9780300243727
ISBN 10: 0300243723
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 23 April 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Beverley Calté is an independent scholar and current president of the Comité Picabia. William A. Camfield is professor emeritus of art history at Rice University. Candace Clements is an independent art historian. Arnauld Pierre is professor of art history at Université Paris-Sorbonne.