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Lot Essay
This work is sold with a photo-certificate from the Comité Picabia.
'Picabia has made too many jokes with his painting!" there is ...what certain people find at the bottom of their sack of acrimony ...And me, I say: too many jokes have been made with Picabia's painting! I worked for months and years making use of nature, copying it. Now it is my nature that I copy, that I try to express. I was once feverish with over-calculated inventions, now it is my instinct that guides me...This third dimension, not made of light and shadow, these transparencies with their corner of oubliettes permit me to express for myself the resemblance of my interior desires...I want a painting where all my instincts may have a free course...Those who have said ...that "I do not enter the line of account" are right. I take no part in no addition and recount my life to myself alone.' (Francis Picabia, 'Introduction', Exposition Francis Picabia, Chez Léonce Rosenberg Paris, December 9-31, 1930, reproduced in W. Camfield, Francis Picabia, Princeton, New Jersey, 1979, p. 239).
'Picabia has made too many jokes with his painting!" there is ...what certain people find at the bottom of their sack of acrimony ...And me, I say: too many jokes have been made with Picabia's painting! I worked for months and years making use of nature, copying it. Now it is my nature that I copy, that I try to express. I was once feverish with over-calculated inventions, now it is my instinct that guides me...This third dimension, not made of light and shadow, these transparencies with their corner of oubliettes permit me to express for myself the resemblance of my interior desires...I want a painting where all my instincts may have a free course...Those who have said ...that "I do not enter the line of account" are right. I take no part in no addition and recount my life to myself alone.' (Francis Picabia, 'Introduction', Exposition Francis Picabia, Chez Léonce Rosenberg Paris, December 9-31, 1930, reproduced in W. Camfield, Francis Picabia, Princeton, New Jersey, 1979, p. 239).