
Art Institute of Chicago
Untitled (Match-Woman I)
Francis Picabia · 1920
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; Olga Mohler, Paris, by 1949 [Paris 1949 and Camfield 2016]. Simone Collinet (Galerie Furstenberg), Paris, 1954 [Camfield 2016]; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, by July 1959 [letter from Edwin Bergman to Simone Collinet in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1999.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, New Chenil Galleries, Tri-National Exhibition of Works by French, English, and American Painters and Sculptors, 1925; traveled to New York, Wildenstein Galleries, 1926, no. 184.
- Paris, Renee Drouin, Francis Picabia: Cinquantes Ans de Plaisier, March 4, 1949, no. 23.
- Paris, Galerie Artiste et Artisan, Quelques Oeuvres de Picabia: Epoque dada 1915-1925, November 20-December 4, 1951.
- New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, International Dada, April 25-May 9, 953, no. 161.
- Paris, Galerie Furstenberg, Picabia, June 5-July 5, 1956, no. 25. London, Matthiesen Gallery, Francis Picabia, October-November 1959, no.26.
- Chicago, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, But is it Art? October 12-November 12, 1960, no. 20.
- Zurich, Kunsthaus, DADA: Ausstellung zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum, October 8-November 17, 1966, no. 207; traveled to Paris, Musée Moderne, November 30, 1966-January 30, 1967.
- New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Exhibition: String and Rope, January 7-31, 1970, no. 50.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, September 8-October 22, 1972, n.p.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dada and Surrealism in Chicago Collections, December 1, 1984-January 27, 1985.
- Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context, May 5-July 1, 1960, n.p.
Literature
Published references
- “Speaking of Dada,” Life Magazine, 34 (25 May 1953), pp. 24-25 (ill.).
- Bernard Dorival, Les Peintres du Xxe Siecle (Paris, 1957), p. 59.
- Sidney Janis Gallery, X Years of Janis (New York, 1958), fig. 84.
- Janis Harriet and Rudi Blesh, Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques (New York, 1962), fig. 50.
- Jean –Paul Crespelle, La Folle Époque (Paris, 1968), coverMarc Le Bot, Francis Picabia et la crise des valeurs figuratives: 1900-1925 (Paris, 1968), pp. 183-184, 193.
- Sarane Alexandrian, Surrealist Art (London, 1970), p. 43.
- William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia (New York, 1970), p. 36.
- William A. Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times (Princeton, 1979), p. 218,fig. 261, pl.t XIII.
- Maria Lluisa Borràs, Picabia (New York, 1985), pp. 287, 299 (ill.), 324 (ill.), 462, 516.
- Terry Ann R. Neff, In the Mind’s Eye: Dada and Surrealism (New York, 1985), pp. 205-206, pl. 46.
- William A. Camfield, Marcel Duchamp Fountain (Houston, 1989), p. 81.
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context (Chicago, 1990), n.p.
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