Francis Picabia Works Online
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Original works by Francis Picabia available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
Here, This Is Stieglitz Here, 1915
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
12 works online when last checked
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Francis Picabia at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Francis Picabia
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Very Rare Picture on Earth, 1915
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Very Rare Picture on Earth, 1915
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Le baiser
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
10 works by Picabia
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
Untitled (sailboat)
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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4 works by Francis Picabia online
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
L'éclipse, ca.1922-23
Seattle Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Morgensonne im Herbst, ca.1898
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Francis Picabia at CGFA
Francis Picabia at The Athenaeum
36 works online
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Collection New York (a private collector who has put some of his or her collection online)
2 works online
Kubisme (Cubism) (in Dutch)
s u r r e a l i s t . c o m
A little solitude amidst the suns (A picture painted to tell not to prove)
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francis Picabia 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Art + Auction Magazine
Artist Dossier -- "Although Picabia never abandoned the most traditional of mediums, painting, he complicated his canvases - and his market - with Dada flair"
Frieze Magazine
"The Good The Bad and The Ugly -- Porn, photography and Picabia's late paintings"
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 30): Francis Picabia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Portrait of a Doctor, 1935-36
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Francis Picabia: Accommodations of Desire
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Francis Picabia: The Late Works 1933-1953
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