Untitled (Match-Woman I) by Francis Picabia
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Match-Woman I)

Francis Picabia · 1920

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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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