Self-Portrait

Prints and Drawings

c. 1929

Francis Picabia
French, 1879-1953

While Picabia was considered the public face of the Dada movement, and his earliest acclaimed works reflect Cubist influences, in the 1920s he turned to a figurative style. Between 1928 and 1932, he developed a body of work, called Transparencies, featuring multiple layers of transparent images, full of wistfulness and melancholy.

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Artist: Francis Picabia
Title: Self-Portrait
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1929
Medium: Gouache, pen and black ink, and black crayon on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 63 × 48.3 cm (24 13/16 × 19 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Margaret Fisher Endowment
Reference Number: 2001.323

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