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Première rencontre
Première rencontre
Première rencontre
Photo: Tobias Fischer/Moderna Museet

Première rencontre

Artist (Frankrike, 1879 - 1953)
Alternate Title
  • Första mötet
  • First Encounter
Date1925
MediumOil and Ripolin on masonite
DimensionsBildmått: 93 × 73 cm Ram: 113 × 94,5 × 5,5 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchase 1976 with contribution from The Friends of  Moderna Museet
Countries
Object NumberMOM 66
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkAs an artist and a person, Francis Picabia was forever opposing social and artistic conventions. He painted Première rencontre just after he had moved from Paris to southern France. Throughout his artistic career, he expressed himself in many different styles and alternated between abstraction and figuration. His works from the mid-1920s to the mid-1940s are figurative, as in the “monster” series to which Première rencontre belongs, and in the female nudes inspired by the aesthetics of soft-porn magazines. The lovers in Première rencontre are grotesquely exaggerated, with their multiple eyes, theatre mask noses and garish colours. Typical of Picabia is the playful and anarchistic spirit in which he deals with his motifs.
Selected exhibition history Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Implosion. Ett postmodernt perspektiv / A Postmodern Perspective (1987-1988) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Dansmaskiner (den 22 januari 2014 - den 27 april 2014) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Supersurrealismen (den 29 september 2012 - den 27 januari 2013) Moderna Museet Malmö Jan Håfströms urval ur MM:s samlingar (1994-1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Francis Picabia (1984) Kunsthaus Zürich Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sömnlösa nätter. Från 1980-talet i Moderna Museets samling (den 24 februari 2023 - den 14 januari 2024) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues De Ou Par Marcel Duchamp : Par Ulf Linde : [Moderna Museet Stockholm/Konstakademien 29/9-13/11 2011]The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Implosion : ett postmodernt perspektiv : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 24/10 1987 - 10/1 1988]Francis Picabia : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 7 april - 20 maj 1984Dance machinesMästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]