L'Acrobate

by Francis Picabia

Artist Francis Picabia (Frankrike, 1879 - 1953)

Alternate Title

The Acrobate
Akrobaten

Dateca 1925

MediumCollage

DimensionsBildmått: 106,5 × 76,5 × 0,4 cm Ram: 123,8 × 93,8 × 2,3 cm

Classification

Credit LinePurchase 1969

Countries

Frankrike

Object NumberNMB 1982

CollectionsSömnlösa nätter

The artwork is not on display

About the artworkFrancis Picabia was one of the foremost figures in the Dada movement, which clearly distanced itself from all the classicist tendencies that had made a return in art after the First World War. Within a few years, however, the mercurial artist would come to use images borrowed from classical art itself – which he overlapped in transparent layers. These dreamy “transparent paintings”, which seem to exist in several dimensions at once, made an impression on the Surrealist movement, which he joined for a while. Picabia had experimented with double exposures in film a few years earlier, but transferring this to painting was a novel idea. L’Acrobate is one of the few works in which Picabia also experimented with creating transparency by painting on transparent cellophane.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Etikett: Centre national d'art et de cultur Georges Pompidou Francis Picabia 23 Janvier-29 Mars 1976 Galeries Nationales de Grand Palais Porte Clemenceau Selected exhibition history Surrealism, samlingen (den 19 oktober 2024 - den 18 januari 2026) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sömnlösa nätter. Från 1980-talet i Moderna Museets samling (den 24 februari 2023 - den 14 januari 2024) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Francis Picabia (1984) Kunsthaus Zürich The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Francis Picabia : Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 7 april - 20 maj 1984

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