Voilà la femme
1915
Voilà la femme
1915
Picabia's first "mechanomorphic" drawings date from 1915 and appeared that same year in a dazzling issue of photographer Alfred Stieglitz's 291 review.
Arrived in New York in May 1915 in the wake of his friend Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia produced a mechanical imagery that mobilised words in his work and radically anticipated the Dada aesthetic. It was during this period that he began to subvert Latin sayings from the pink pages of the Larousse dictionary. Thus, “Ecce homo” [Behold the man] became “ Voilà la femme” [There is the woman], with a majestic drawing of a suggestive mechanical union between an orifice and a piston.
| Domain | Dessin |
|---|---|
| Techniques | Gouache, aquarelle et peinture à l'huile sur papier contrecollé sur carton |
| Dimensions | 75,2 x 50,4 cm |
| Acquisition | Dation, 2019 |
| Inventory no. | AM 2019-719 |
Detailed description
| Artist |
Francis Picabia (Francis Martinez de Picabia, dit)
(1879, France - 1953, France) |
|---|---|
| Main title | Voilà la femme |
| Creation date | 1915 |
| Domain | Dessin |
| Techniques | Gouache, aquarelle et peinture à l'huile sur papier contrecollé sur carton |
| Dimensions | 75,2 x 50,4 cm |
| Acquisition | Dation, 2019 |
| Collection area | Cabinet d'art graphique |
| Inventory no. | AM 2019-719 |
