Late Works of Francis Picabia at the Arts Club of Chicago - September 5th, 2024

Picabia’s association with The Arts Club began in 1929, when then Club President Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and Exhibitions Chairman Alice Roullier arranged an exhibition of Picabia’s watercolors curated by Marcel Duchamp, Picabia’s closest friend and sometimes dealer. In 1936, The Arts Club hosted a solo exhibition of Picabia’s paintings curated by his good friend, Gertrude Stein, that ran from January 3rd to 25th, 1936. Five years after his death in 1953, The Arts Club included Picabia the group exhibition “Surrealism Then and Now” (1958) alongside Francis Bacon, Balthus, Victor Brauner, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Giorgio De Chirico, Paul Delvaux, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Auguste Redon, Germaine Richier, Yves Tanguy, and Pavel Tchelitchew. 

Then in 2000, The Arts Club mounted “The Late Works of Francis Picabia” with the support of Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen, for which the present catalog was produced. The exhibition, which was on view from September 20th to December 16th, 2000, considered Picabia’s relationship to the arts club and included two works from his original solo exhibition in 1936: “Homme et femme au bord de la mer (Man and Woman at the SeaShore)” from 1935 and “Cette chose est faite pour perpetuer mon souvenir (This Thing Is Made to Perpetuate My Memory)” from 1915, both of which are staples of The Arts Club’s permanent collection.

30 pages
6 x 8 in
Softcover, perfect bound
Uncommon

The present catalog contains a chronology of Picabia’s life and work and eleven reproductions in color from the exhibition. The catalog includes a foreword by Kathy S. Cottong, an essay by artist and critic David Robbins, and a poem by Gertrude Stein.