
Art Institute of Chicago
Têtes-paysage
Francis Picabia · 1928
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie Fürstenberg (Simone Collinet), Paris, by 1956 [Paris, 1956]. Galerie d’Art Moderne (Marie-Suzanne Feigel), Basel, 1965 [letter from Marie-Suzanne Feigel in curatorial file]. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, 1965 [letter of 20 September 1965 from Leigh Block to James Speyer in curatorial file].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Fürstenberg, Exposition Picabia, June 5-July 5, 1956, no. 38.
- London, Matthiesen Gallery, Francis Picabia 1879-1953, October-November 1959, no. 42.
- Paris, Galerie Mona Lisa, 1961.
- Newcastle, United Kingdom, Hatton Gallery (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne), Francis Picabia, March 1964, no. 34; traveled to London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, April 1964.
- Paris, Galerie Fürstenberg, Francis Picabia, November 4-December 5, 1964, no. 20.
- New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Picabia Exhibition, September 17-November 29, 1970, no. 27.
- Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, Francis Picabia, November 11-December 30, 1983, no. 39; traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, February-March 1984, Stockholm, Moderna Museet, April 7-May 20, 1984, Seibu Takanawa, Japan, The Museum of Modern Art, July 21-September 5, 1984, and Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, September 9-October 21, 984.
- Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago; traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20, 1994–May 29, 1995; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994: Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6, 1994–September 25, 1994.
- Chicago, Arts Club, The Late Works of Francis Picabia, September 14–December 16, 2000.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test, October 29, 2017–January 15, 2018, cat. 541.
Literature
Published references
- Gabrielle Picabia, “Picabia et l’anti-peinture,” Prisme des Arts 4 (1956), pp. 23-24 (ill.).
- Marc Le Bot, Francis Picabia et la crise des valeurs figuratives 1900-1925 (Paris, 1968), ill. opp. p. 177, no. 56.
- William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia (New York, 1970), p. 41, no. 27.
- Mauizio Fagiolo dell’Arco, Francis Picabia: Mezzo Secolo di Avanguardia (Torino, 1974), fig. 212.
- William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times (Princeton, 1979), no. 344.
- A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 62, no. 3C7.
- Matthew S. Witkovsky and Devin Fore, ed. Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Text. Exh. Cat. Art Institute of Chicago, 2017, cat. 541, p. 312.
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