Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

Francis Picabia

c. 1929

Attribution

Francis Picabia French, 1879-1953

Medium

Gouache, pen and black ink, and black crayon on cream wove paper

Physical dimensions

63 × 48.3 cm (24 13/16 × 19 1/16 in.)

Credit line

Margaret Fisher Endowment

From the museum

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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