About This Artwork

Francis Picabia
French, 1879–1953

Têtes-paysage, 1928

Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 32 in. (60.3 x 81.2 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "Francis Picabia"
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1966.476

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Galerie Fürstenberg, Exposition Picabia, June 5-July 5, 1956, no. 38.

London, Matthiesen Gallery, Francis Picabia 1879-1953, October-November 1959, no. 42.

Paris, Galerie Mona Lisa, 1961.

Newcastle, United Kingdom, Hatton Gallery (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne), Francis Picabia, March 1964, no. 34; traveled to London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, April 1964.

Paris, Galerie Fürstenberg, Francis Picabia, November 4-December 5, 1964, no. 20.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Picabia Exhibition, September 17-November 29, 1970, no. 27.

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Francis Picabia, November 11-December 30, 1983, no. 39; traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, February-March 1984, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, April 7-May 20, 1984, Seibu Takanawa, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, July 21-September 5, 1984, and Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, September 9-October 21, 984.

Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20, 1994–May 29, 1995; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994: Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6, 1994–September 25, 1994.
Chicago, Arts Club, The Late Works of Francis Picabia, September 14–December 16, 2000.

Publication History

Gabrielle Picabia, “Picabia et l’anti-peinture,” Prisme des Arts 4 (1956), pp. 23-24 (ill.).

Marc Le Bot, Francis Picabia et la crise des valeurs figuratives 1900-1925 (Paris, 1968), ill. opp. p. 177, no. 56.

William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia (New York, 1970), p. 41, no. 27.

Mauizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, Francis Picabia: Mezzo Secolo di Avanguardia (Torino, 1974), fig. 212.

William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times (Princeton, 1979), no. 344.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 62, no. 3C7.

Ownership History

Galerie Fürstenberg (Simone Collinet), Paris, by 1956 [Paris, 1956]. Galerie d’Art Moderne (Marie-Suzanne Feigel), Basel, 1965 [letter from Marie-Suzanne Feigel in curatorial file]. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, 1965 [letter of 20 September 1965 from Leigh Block to James Speyer in curatorial file].