Francis Picabia created classically inspired figures not tied to specific stories, while Giorgio de Chirico was fascinated by the mythological figure of Ariadne. Between 1927 and the early 1930s, ...

CURATOR, ANNE UMLAND: Francis Picabia's unconventional portrait of a Machine with No Name is a wonderful example of his so-called machine style. It announces the sort of pervasive mechanomorphic ...

Curator, Leah Dickerman: This painting marks the debut of abstraction in Paris. Francis Picabia showed it in the fall of 1912 at the Salon d'Automne. Critics reviled it and called it encrusted ...