"Francis Picabia: Late Paintings".

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"Francis Picabia: Late Paintings," at Michael Werner Gallery, New York. April 12-June 10, 2000

Francis Picabia (1879-1953) embodied the spirit of eclecticism. An inconstant, philandering lover of art, he had no respect or patience for the integrity of artistic styles or for the ideologies that at times generate them. During his first thirty years as a painter, he moved restlessly from impressionism and postimpressionism through fauvism, orphism, cubism, dada, and surrealism, after which he skidded off on an idiosyncratic course that briefly visited many styles ...

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