"My heart barks and beats, my blood is a railway without a station that leads to Barcelona. My body is a jar of sublime opium which serves to brighten my leisure time."
Francis Picabia is a French painter, graphic designer, and writer, associated with all the artistic movements of his time. Though he stood with Duchamp at the inception of the Dada movement, Picabia is above all a modern artist who accompanies the great upheavals in painting at the beginning of the 20th century. From his very first creations, he manifested a provocative cynicism that was only brought to light at the end of the 1990s, when art historians unveiled his method of work based on the transformation of pre-existing images. Sometimes expressionist and lyrical, sometimes abstract and cold, Francis Picabia embodies a free and nonconformist art in perpetual revolution.