Francis Picabia. Poster for New Year’s Eve event featuring performances of Relâche and Cinésketch by Ballets Suédois, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, December 31, 1924

Francis Picabia

Poster for New Year’s Eve event featuring performances of Relâche and Cinésketch by Ballets Suédois, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, December 31, 1924

1924

Lithograph with watercolor additions

Not on view

Medium Lithograph with watercolor additions
Dimensions composition (irreg.): 24 1/4 × 17 11/16" (61.6 × 45 cm); sheet: 27 7/16 × 21" (69.7 × 53.4 cm)
Printer La Société des Imprimeries l'hoir, Paris
Credit The Merrill C. Berman Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Alice and Tom Tisch, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III, David Booth, Marlene Hess and James D. Zirin, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, Jack Shear, the Patricia Bonfield Endowed Acquisition Fund for the Design Collection, Daniel and Jane Och, The Orentreich Family Foundation, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, The Modern Women's Fund; and by exchange: Gift of Jean Dubuffet in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Colin, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, and the Richard S. Zeisler Bequest
Object number 473.2018
Department Drawings and Prints

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Francis Picabia

Francis Picabia

French, 1879–1953 79 works online

In 1922, Francis Picabia wrote, “If you want to have clean ideas, change them like shirts.” Throughout his audacious and inventive career, which spanned almost 50 years and encompassed painting, performance, poetry, publishing, and film, Picabia lived out that prescription.

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