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Francis Picabia

FRANCIS PICABIA

Eternal Beginning Hauser & Wirth 1 May–1 August 2025 New York, 22nd Street
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This spring, the presentation of late works by French avant-garde artist Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) travels from Hauser & Wirth’s Paris gallery to 22nd Street in New York. Organised in collaboration with Comité Picabia, and co-curated by its President, Beverley Calté, and art historian Arnauld Pierre, ‘Eternal Beginning’ is the first major exhibition to focus on Picabia’s compelling final period. It features close to 30 paintings created by Picabia between 1945—when he returned to Paris from the South of France—and 1952, the penultimate year of his life. As a complement to the exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Publishers has released a catalogue with fresh scholarship in both English and French on Picabia’s late work.

As a complement to the exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Publishers has released a catalogue with fresh scholarship in both English and French on Picabia’s late work. The publication features an introductory preface by Beverley Calté as well as essays by art historians Arnauld Pierre and Candace Clements. It contextualises Picabia’s position within a vibrant postwar Parisian art scene, and among a group of gestural abstract painters who were collectively identified as the art informel movement.

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Francis Picabia was a pioneering French artist whose kaleidoscopic career traversed Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, and abstraction, making him one of the most influential and unpredictable figures in 20th-century art.

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FRANCIS PICABIA Expanding Horizons Hauser & Wirth 21 May–1 August 2026 London
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542 West 22nd Street
New York
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New York 542 West 22nd Street
Hauser Wirth contemporary art gallery in New York 22nd Street
Hauser & Wirth
542 West 22nd Street, New York, United States
+1 212 790 3900
http://hauserwirth.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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