Francis Picabia

Catalogue Raisonne Volume IV (1940–1953)

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

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Yale University Press
14 February 2023

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

This publication is the fourth volume of an important catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia

This publication, the fourth volume of an important catalogue raisonné of the work of Francis Picabia (1879–1953), includes paintings and selected drawings dating from 1940 into 1952. During the war years, while still residing in the south of France, Picabia was primarily occupied by figural subjects⁠—multi-figure allegories, female nudes, and glamorous female ""portraits""⁠—painted in bold illusionistic relief. Notorious even in his lifetime, most of these works are now known to have adapted photographic illustrations in older ""girly"" magazines and other popular media.

Upon his return to Paris in the post-war period, Picabia renewed his earlier interests in abstract and sometimes non-objective art, still often drawing upon published sources ranging from prehistoric art to Nietzsche, and pursued frequent exhibition of his distinctive, constantly mutating responses to critical currents of the day. These included a series of severely reductive, subtly effective ""point"" or dot paintings beginning in 1949—three years before ill-health effectively ended Picabia’s half-century of artistic provocation.

By: Candace Clements, Arnauld Pierre, William A. Camfield
Preface by: Beverley Calté
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 302mm, Width: 244mm,
ISBN: 9780300266962
ISBN 10: 0300266960
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 14 February 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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