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Francis Picabia Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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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 NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City 3 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History Here, This Is Stieglitz Here, 1915
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin Le baiser
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project 10 works by Picabia
Norwich Museums, England
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  L'éclipse, ca.1922-23
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
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)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (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 The Athenaeum 36 works online
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Francis Picabia at CGFA
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
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
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 (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francis Picabia  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
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. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
search inside
 Francis Picabia: Accommodations of Desire
look inside
 Francis Picabia: The Late Works 1933-1953
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