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Title:Star Dancer and Her School of Dance
Artist: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
Object Number:49.70.12
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 (as "A Star Dancer and Her School of Dancing").
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 (as "Danseuse Étoile et son École de Danse").
Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Alfred Stieglitz Exhibition: His Collection," June 10–August 31, 1947, no catalogue (checklist no. 88; as "Danseuse etoile et son ecole de danse").
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alfred Stieglitz: His Photographs and His Collection," February 2–29, 1948, no catalogue.
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; as "Star Dancer and Her Dancing School"; loan extended to March 19, 1961).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," September 9–November 12, 1967, no catalogue.
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Francis Picabia," September 17–December 6, 1970, no. 28.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "The Cubist Epoch," December 15, 1970–February 21, 1971, no. 225 (as "Star Dancer and Her School of Dancing").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Cubist Epoch," April 9–June 7, 1971, no. 225.
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 (as "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse").
Paris. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. "Francis Picabia," January 23–March 29, 1976, no. 31 (as "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse").
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 (as "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse").
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 (as "Startänzerin und ihre Tanzschule").
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 30–September 4, 1988, no. 3 (as "Star Dancer and her Dancing School (Danseuse étoile et son école de danse)").
Madrid. Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. "Dada y Constructivismo," March 9–May 1, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 63; as "Bailarina estrella y su escuela de danza").
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; as "Star Dancer with Her Dance School").
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), ill. sec. 2, p. 1.
Michel Sanouillet. Picabia. Paris, 1964, p. 27, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
William A. Camfield. "The Machinist Style of Francis Picabia." Art Bulletin 48 (September–December 1966), p. 313 n. 26, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
Marc Le Bot. Francis Picabia et la crise des valeurs figuratives: 1900–1925. Paris, 1968, p. 60, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son cours de danse".
George Heard Hamilton. "The Alfred Stieglitz Collection." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), pp. 380–81, fig. 8, calls it "The Star Dancer and her Dance School" in text and "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse" in caption.
Douglas Cooper. The Cubist Epoch. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. London, 1970, pp. 126, 301, no. 225, pl. 112.
William A. Camfield. Francis Picabia. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, 1970, pp. 21, 73, no. 28, ill.
Sam Hunter and John Jacobus. American Art of the 20th Century: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture. New York, 1973, fig. 170, call it "Star Dancer and Her School of Dancing".
Jacob Bean et al. Dessins français du Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York de David à Picasso. Exh. cat., Musée du Louvre. Paris, 1973, p. 55, no. 68, ill. and pl. 86.
William A. Camfield. Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times. Princeton, 1979, pp. 49–50, 60, 284, fig. 75.
Virginia Spate. Orphism: The Evolution of Non-Figurative Painting in Paris, 1910–1914. Oxford, 1979, pp. xxiv, 313, 322, 381, pl. 240, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
Barbara Rose in William C. Agee and Barbara Rose. Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist. A Catalogue Raisonné. New York, 1979, pp. 57, 226, fig. 6.
Maria Lluïsa Borràs. Picabia. New York, 1985, p. 105 n. 71, p. 507, no. 139, fig. 249 (color).
Willard Bohn. "Picabia's 'Mechanical Expression' and the Demise of the Object." Art Bulletin 67 (December 1985), p. 674, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse (Prima Ballerina and Her Dancing School)".
Cathy Bernheim. Picabia. Paris, 1995, p. 76, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
Annette Michelson inFrancis Picabia: Máquinas y Españolas. Exh. cat., IVAM Centre Julio González. [Valencia], [1995], p. 193, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son cours de danse (Star Dancer and Her Dancer Course)".
Lyn Bolen Rushton. Movement and Meaning: Images of Dance in Modernist Art. Exh. cat., Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia. Charlottesville, 1996, pp. 14, 19, ill. p. 15.
Katherine Hoffman. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Celebration of Music and Dance. New York, 1997, p. 38.
Jody Blake. Le Tumulte noir: Modernist Art and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900–1930. University Park, Penn., 1999, p. 47, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
M. Therese Southgate. "The Cover." JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] 283 (March 22, 2000), p. 1531, calls it "Star Dancer and Her School of Dancing".
Arnauld Pierre. "Picabia, danse, musique: Une clé pour 'Udnie'." Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne 75 (Spring 2001), pp. 64, 66–67, ill. p. 63, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
Arnauld Pierre. Francis Picabia: La peinture sans aura. Paris, 2002, pp. 97–98, 324, fig. 33, calls it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
Michel Sanouillet. "Picabia's First Trip to New York." Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada. Vol. 8 Dada New York: New World for Old. Ed. Martin Ignatius Gaughan and Stephen C. Foster. Farmington Hills, Mich., 2003, p. 114, calls it "Star Dancer and her Dance School".
Katherine Hoffman. Stieglitz: A Beginning Light. New Haven and London, 2004, p. 263.
Jessica Murphy inStieglitz 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) pp. 44, 246.
Katherine Hoffman. Alfred Stieglitz: A Legacy of Light. New Haven, 2011, pp. 81, 425, fig. 40 (color), calls it "Star Dancer with Her Dance School" in the caption and "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse (Star Dancer with her School)" in the text.
William A. Camfield et al. Francis Picabia: Catalogue Raisonné. Vol. 1, 1898–1914. Brussels, 2014, pp. 82, 87, 125–27, 353, no. 464, ill. (color), fig. 55 (color), call it "Danseuse étoile et son école de danse".
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.
Jacquelynn Baas. Marcel Duchamp and the Art of Life. Cambridge, Mass., 2019, p. 299, fig. 10.16 (color).
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