Picabia

/ pikabja; pɪˈkɑːbɪə /

noun

1. PicabiaFrancis18791953MFrenchARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: designerWRITING: writer Francis. 1879–1953, French painter, designer, and writer, associated with the cubist, Dadaist, and surrealist movements

Example Sentences

A show that started with pictures might make you come to wonder — following the pioneering feminist art historian Linda Nochlin — why Picasso’s paintings of women are generally lacking in desire, quite unlike the pervy paintings of Balthus, Picabia and other cancelable midcentury gents.

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Myriam, Berest’s grandmother, had married their son, Vincente, and survived the war with help from the Picabia clan.

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Picabia is a prominent character in “The Postcard,” and much of the story is told through fictionalized conversations between her and Berest.

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Then Berest turned to her own family history: In 2017, she and her sister Claire, also a writer, wrote a biography of the artist and critic Gabriële Buffet-Picabia, their great-grandmother, who was married to the Spanish painter Francis Picabia.

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She could at least count on the help of her mother, Picabia, a linguistics professor who had self-published a book through Porte-Plume about their ancestors who died during the Holocaust.

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