Central figure of international artistic circles, Francis Picabia (1879–1953) played a key role in the history of the early 20th-century avant-gardes. In the 1910s and 1920s, drawing on his travels between New York and Barcelona, the artist developed an artistic language that is both bold and irreverent. The exhibition at the Céret Museum of Modern Art will retrace the artist’s career from a new perspective, exploring in particular the role played by Iberian culture in his work and that of his contemporaries. The exhibition will bring together nearly one hundred works by Picabia and his New York and Catalan artistic circle, from Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp to Albert Gleizes and Juliette Roche, from Robert and Sonia Delaunay to Kees van Dongen, Marie Laurencin, Natalia Goncharova, and also Pablo Picasso. The exhibition will benefit from the support of prestigious institutions in France and Spain, through exceptional loans from the Musée de l’Orangerie, the Centre Pompidou, the Prince’s Palace of Monaco, the Centro de Arte – Museo Reina Sofía, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, as well as the Picasso museums in Paris and Barcelona.
“This exhibition is recognized as being of national interest by the State (Ministry of Culture), which provides it with exceptional financial support in this capacity.”
