Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning

Artists

Francis Picabia

Press release

In collaboration with the Comité Picabia, we will display an exhibition of post-war artworks by Francis Picabia at our Paris gallery this January. Curated by Beverley Calté and Arnauld Pierre, this will be the first major solo exhibition exclusively exploring Picabia’s unique final period, created after his return to Paris in 1945 until the year before his death in 1953. Often overshadowed by other periods of his oeuvre, Picabia’s last series saw the artist abandon his famous wartime Nudes, heralding a new era of nonfigurative art, coupled with a particular interest in surface texture and new sources of inspiration. Characteristic of Picabia’s restless artistic talent, forever changing directions, these paintings represent his own definitions of abstraction, creating a new visual language which distinctly sets this bold group of works apart from anything he had done before