Self-Portrait
Francis Picabia
1929
- Medium
- Gouache, pen and black ink, and black crayon on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 63 × 48.3 cm (24 13/16 × 19 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- gouache
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)gouacheprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
While Picabia was considered the public face of the Dada movement, and his earliest acclaimed works reflect Cubist influences, in the 1920s he turned to a figurative style. Between 1928 and 1932, he developed a body of work, called Transparencies, featuring multiple layers of transparent images, full of wistfulness and melancholy.
