Picabia Sells for Record $11 M., Garden Statue IDed as $10.5 M. Canova, and More: Morning Links for March 17, 2022
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Francis Picabia
Anthony Hopkins Steps Out of the Shadows as an Artist
In an exclusive interview, Hopkins talks about his painting that went viral.
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Picabia Alert #14: In Basel, Many Sides of the Artist Are on View
The offerings include a bounty of works at the fair and a big-league loan to a local museum.
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Picabia Alert #13: Blowout Art Basel Edition
Sounds the alarms! No fewer than four galleries have brought work by the artist to the august Swiss fair.
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Vision Quest: The Berkshire Museum Will Stop at Nothing to Sell Its Art, Including a Masterpiece by Norman Rockwell
What does that mean for the future of American institutions?
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‘About the Hare and the Tortoise But Mostly About the Hare’: William N. Copley on Francis Picabia, in About 1978
For anyone interested in the pathways and redoubts of 20th-century art history that are messy, ribald, obscure, and proudly defiant of taste and convention, now is a great time to visit New York Cit<a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1670" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
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Francis Picabia, Art-World Jailer: Philip Pearlstein on ‘One of the Prime Movers of Modern Art,’ in 1970
With the Museum of Modern Art in New York preparing to open a much-anticipated Francis Picabia retrospective on Monday, we turn back to the September 1970 issue of ARTnews, in which Philip Pearlst<a href="/art-news/reviews/monster-mash-momas-retrospective-of-the-shape-shifting-provocateur-francis-picabia-is-one-of-the-best-shows-of-the-year-7336/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"…
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Monster Mash: MoMA’s Retrospective of the Shape-Shifting Provocateur Francis Picabia Is One of the Best Shows of the Year
The history books have always favored artists who are dependable, who show up on the scene at just the right moment, ready to do their thing, and then do it. It is easy to picture Pablo Picasso, Andy
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