Star Dancer and Her School of Dance

Francis Picabia  (French, Paris 1879–1953 Paris)

Date:
1913
Medium:
Watercolor and charcoal on paper
Dimensions:
22 x 29 3/4 in. (55.9 x 75.6 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949
Accession Number:
49.70.12
Rights and Reproduction:
© 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed and dated (lower right, in watercolor): Picabia 1913 Inscribed (upper left):DANSEUSE ETOILE / ET SON ÉCOLE DANSE

  • Exhibition History

    Virginia: Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, September 20-December 8, 1996. ¦Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art¦. Pg. 15, illus. in b&w.

    Scotland, Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. ¦Picabia: 1879-1953¦. Cat. p. 57, plate #3 (illus.)

    Frankfurt, Germany, Galerie Neuendorf, Sept. 28-Nov. 5, 1988

    Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. De David à Picasso," 1973-74, no. 68, repr. #86, pg. 156, pg. 55

    New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Francis Picabia, 1970, catalogue by William A. Camfield, p. 73, no. 28 (gives bibliography, ill.). Sept. 17-Nov. 22, 1970

    New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ¦Drawings from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection¦, September 9-November 12, 1967 (no catalogue, typed checklist only)

    New York. Museum of Modern Art. Alfred Stieglitz-his photographs and his collection, 1948, checklist no. 49.

    Philadelphia. Museum of Art. History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: "291" and After, 1944, cat. no. 106

    New York. The Little Gallery at "291". An exhibition of studies made in N.Y. by François Picabia of Paris - the first one-man show of Picabia in America, 1913, no. 3 (called: A star dancer and her school of dancing.).

  • References

    Camfield, William A. The machinist style of Francis Picabia, in The Art Bulletin, vol. XLVIII, Sept.-Dec. 1966, p. 313

    Hamilton, George Heard. The Alfred Stieglitz collection, in MMA Journal, vol 3, 1970, p. 380 (mentioned); pl. 8 (ill.)

  • See also
    Who
    What
    Where
    When
    In the Museum
    Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
    MetPublications
210008566

Close