Bobbin

Title	Bobbin
Artist	フランシス・ピカビア　Francis PICABIA
Date	1921-22
Medium	pencil and gouache on paper
Dimensions	76.5×56.9
Classification	Watercolors and Drawings
Accession Number	FD198900002000
Summary	Many avant-garde artists of the second decade of the 20th century, for example Léger and the Futurists, praised machine civilization, and machines had a special place in the work of Picabia and Duchamp. These two artists differed from the others, however, in finding curious analogies between machines and human beings and in using the motif of the machine to appear aloof and uninterested in the subject matter of a painting or in painting itself. This work is one of the last of Picabia’s machine pictures. In contrast to his works of the 1910s, with their sexually suggestive forms and enigmatic titles, this work presents carelessly strewn machine fragments, seemingly intended only to perplex the viewer.

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Native place	Paris, FRA
Birth	1879
Dead place	Paris, FRA
Died	1953
Biography	Picabia was born in Paris, France. He attracted attention early in his career with an Impressionist landscape style but soon joined the avant-garde. Around 1912 he was making abstract paintings in a style derived from Cubism. He went to the United States at the time of the Armory Show in 1913 and became a go-between for the advanced art circles of New York and Paris. During the First World War, he was a central figure in the Dada movement in New York, Barcelona, and Zurich, publishing the magazine 291 and making a series of “machine paintings.” After the war, he joined Dada demonstrations in Paris but withdrew from the movement as it fell into cliché. From 1925 on he lived in Cannes, making his presence felt in high society. He continued to paint in ever-changing styles and died in Paris.

Bobbin

Francis PICABIA