About This Artwork
Francis Picabia
French, 1879–1953
Têtes-paysage1928
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
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Gallery 394
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].

