Picabia Committee
26 rue Danielle Casanova
75002 Paris
Phone: +33 (0)1 42 60 23 78
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.
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
October 24, 2024
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
Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I
Catalogue Raisonné Vol. II
Catalogue Raisonné Vol. III
Catalogue Raisonné Vol. IV
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.
