"Still Life" by Francis Picabia, Fr., (1879-1953) Crayon Resist

"Still Life" by Francis Picabia, Fr., (1879-1953) Crayon ResistDrypoint, ca. 1907, total ed. of 455, as published in "Du Cubisme", 1947, by La Companie Francaise des Arts Graphiques, plate 9, 7 x 5 1 16, signed and dated in the plate, with "F. Picabia Pointe Seche" verso lower right corner in letterpress, on cream wove paper, a small handling soft fold upper left margin edge. Ex coll. George Binet.

Wuanita Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy and Art Students League

10-1/2 x 7-13/16

adding a "flutter" of life to it's subject

Intending to print an edition of 15

with a subtly articulated veil of plate tone showing light on the building in the distance center

Dubuffet also loved the improvisational music of jazz

The recipient of a Fulbright grant to work in Florence from 1958-9

only state

as well as his  well known cityscapes can still exhibit traces of his early Secessionist style

as published in "Du Cubisme"

7-3/4 x 5-1/4

on Arches Buff wove paper