Star Dancer and Her School of Dance

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

the artist (in spring 1913 to Stieglitz); Alfred Stieglitz, New York (1913–d. 1946; his estate, 1946–49; gift to MMA)

New York. Gallery of the Photo-Secession. "An Exhibition of Studies Made in New York, by François [sic] Picabia, of Paris," March 17–April 5, 1913, no. 4.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "History of an American, Alfred Stieglitz: '291' and After, Selections from the Stieglitz Collection," July 1–November 1, 1944, no. 106.

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection," June 10–August 31, 1947, no catalogue (checklist no. 88).

Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, extended to March 7, 1948, no catalogue (checklist no. 49).

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "From the Alfred Stieglitz Collection: An Extended Loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 22–August 12, 1951, no catalogue (checklist no. E.L.51.690; loan extended to March 20, 1961).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," September 9–November 12, 1967, no catalogue (unnumbered checklist).

New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Francis Picabia," September 16–December 6, 1970, no. 28.

Paris. Cabinet des dessins, Musée du Louvre. "Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso," October 25, 1973–January 7, 1974, no. 68.

Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Francis Picabia," January 23–March 29, 1976, no. 31.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. "Art & Dance: Images of the Modern Dialogue, 1890–1980," November 9, 1982–January 8, 1983, unnumbered cat. (p. 53).

Toledo Museum of Art. "Art & Dance: Images of the Modern Dialogue, 1890–1980," March 6–April 24, 1983, unnumbered cat.

Karuizawa. Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa. "Francis Picabia," July 21–September 5, 1984, no. 12.

Tokyo. Seibu Museum of Art. "Francis Picabia," September 9–October 21, 1984, no. 12.

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. "Vom Klang der Bilder: Die Musik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts," July 6–September 22, 1985, no. 108.

Venice. Palazzo Grassi. "Futurismo e Futurismi," May 4–October 12, 1986, unnumbered cat. (p. 285).

Edinburgh. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. "Picabia, 1879–1953," July 8–September 4, 1988, no. 3.

Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt. "Picabia, 1879–1953," September 26–November 5, 1968, no. 3.

Tokyo. Seibu Museum. "Dada y Constructivismo," October 8–November 13, 1988, unnumbered cat. (p. 63).

Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagasaki. "Dada y Constructivismo," November 19–December 19, 1988, unnumbered cat.

Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura & Hayama. "Dada y Constructivismo," January 5–February 12, 1989.

Madrid. Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Dada y Constructivismo," March 9–May 1, 1989, unnumbered cat.

Charlottesville. Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. "Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art," September 20–December 8, 1996, unnumbered cat. (p. 15).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895–1950," March 8–December 31, 2000, extended to January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 36).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe," October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012, no, 15.

Kunsthaus Zürich. "Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction," June 3–September 25, 2016, unnumbered cat. (pl. 19).

"A Post-Cubist's Impressions of New York." New York Tribune (March 9, 1913), sec. 2, p. 1.

Michel Sanouillet. Picabia. Paris, 1964, p. 27.

William A. Camfield. "The Machinist Style of Francis Picabia." Art Bulletin 48 (September-December 1966), p. 313 n. 26.

Marc Le Bot. Francis Picabia et la crise des valeurs figuratives: 1900–1925. Paris, 1968, p. 60.

George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), pp. 380–81, fig. 8.

Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the Twentieth Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, p. 99, fig. 170.

William A. Camfield. Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times. Princeton, 1979, pp. 49–50, 284, fig. 75.

Virginia Spate. Orphism: The Evolution of Non-Figurative Painting in Paris, 1910–1914. Oxford, 1979, pp. 313, 322, 381, fig. 240.

Maria Lluïsa Borràs. Picabia. New York, 1985, p. 105 n. 71, pp. 138, 507, no. 139, fig. 249.

Willard Bohn. "Picabia's 'Mechanical Expression' and the Demise of the Object." Art Bulletin 67 (December 1985), p. 674.

Cathy Bernheim. Picabia. Paris, 1995, p. 76.

Jody Blake. Le Tumulte noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900–1930. University Park, Penn., 1999, p. 47.

M. Therese Southgate. "Edtaonisl (Clergyman)." JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] 283 (March 22, 2000), p. 1531.

Katherine Hoffman. Stieglitz: A Beginning Light. New Haven and London, 2004, p. 263.

Gilles Dumoulin. "Collage et processus de transmédiation dans les poèmes et dessins mécanomorphes de Francis Picabia." Loxias 26 (September 15, 2009), p. 4.

Jessica Murphy in Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ed. Lisa Mintz Messinger. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2011, pp. 42, 44, 109, 246, no. 15, ill. (color).

George Baker in Anne Umland and Cathérine Hug. Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction. Exh. cat., Kunsthaus Zürich. New York, 2016, pp. 45, 342, colorpl. 19.

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