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APROPOS

The Comité Picabia was founded in 1990 by Olga Picabia. Its vocation is to safeguard the work of Francis Picabia through archive conservation and authentification of artworks in view of publishing his catalogue raisonné.

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Francis Picabia research
 

The Comité Picabia  would be grateful to receive information, photographs and documentation from all owners of works by Francis Picabia.

Comité Picabia meeting
 

We would like to inform you that our next meeting is scheduled for

Spring 2025

If you wish to submit works, please send an image and description using our contact form.

Though this be madness,

yet there is method in't

-Shakespeare, Hamlet (ActeII, Scène II)

Methodology

The catalogue raisonné is planned in four volumes, organized chronologically and covering all artistic mediums.

The chronology of the different volumes is as follows: volume I (1898-1914); volume II (1915-1927); volume III (1927-1939) and volume IV (1940-1953).

These volumes are published individually, each featuring a representative sample of Picabia's works on paper.

The majority of drawings and prints, as well as paintings accepted for the catalogue after the publication of the initial four volumes, will appear in an additional volume.

Although we have endeavored to make this catalogue as complete as possible, it will not include all of Picabia's work. Some works have been lost, destroyed, or reworked by the artist. Others belong to collections unknown to us, still others are known to us, but require additional research or direct examination before any decision relating to their inclusion in the catalogue raisonné

News

The Comité Picabia presents

PICABIA LE SPORTIF

The only way to be followed is to run faster than the others.

-Francis Picabia-

Short film "Entr'acte" 
Directed by René Clair, scenario by Francis Picabia

The Cataologues Raisonné

The Catalogues Raisonnés

Four volumes have been published

and are available on mercatorfonds.be

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Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I

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Catalogue Raisonné Vol. II

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Catalogue Raisonné Vol. III

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Catalogue Raisonné Vol. IV

Olga Picabia's album

This is not a family album.

Nor a catalogue raisonné. It is, above all, an album dé-raisonné, the collage of a life discreetly annotated by its author. It is the reproduction of Olga Mohler Picabia’s world, based on her mentor and great love, Francis Picabia. A variation on the theme of Pygmalion, it offers an intimate and sensitive intaglio portrait of the artist, sometimes surprising and often deeply moving, as seen through Olga’s eyes.

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Tribute to the Presidents of the Comité Picabia

In memory of Olga Picabia (1905 - 2002), President from 1990 to 2002 

 and Pierre Calté (1946 - 2016), President from 2002 to 2016 

 

First meeting in Rubigen, Switzerland 1979

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