Entrance to New York

Prints and Drawings

1913

Francis Picabia
French, 1879-1953

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Francis Picabia
Title: Entrance to New York
Origin: France
Date: 1913
Medium: Watercolor with graphite on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed lower right, in black ink: "Picabia 1913"
Dimensions: 756 × 556 mm
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.576
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

H. Hapgood, “A Paris Painter,” Globe and Commercial Advertiser (February 20, 1913), p. 8.
“A Post-Cubist’s Impressions of New York,” New York Tribune (March 9, 1913), part II, p. 1.
Francis Picabia, “How New York Looks to Me,” New York American (March 30, 1913), magazine section, p. 11.
Camera Work 42-43 (April-July 1913), pp. 48-51.
Thomas Bender and Carl E. Schorske (editors), Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870-1930 (New York, 1994), p. 299, fig. 11.19.
Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996), p. 166 (ill.).
Linda Dalrymple Henderson, The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art (Cambridge, 2001).

New York, Little Gallery of the Photo-Secession, “Picabia,” March 17-April 5, 1913.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Stieglitz: His Collection, June 10–August. 31, 1947.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Francis Picabia,” 1970, p. 71, cat. 26.
The Art Institute of Chicago, February 21-October 31, 1992.
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, “New York et l’art moderne: Alfred Stieglitz et son cercle, 1905-1930,” October 18, 2004-January 16, 2005, p. 185, cat. 106 (ill.).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, “Picabia: Our Heads Are Round So Our Thoughts Can Change Direction”, November 20, 2016 - March 19, 2017, pp. 47, 57, pl. 17, cat. by Anne Umland, et. al.

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), New York; Stieglitz Estate (Georgia O’Keefe (1887–1986), executor); given to the Art Institute, 1949.

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