Du "Cubisme"
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Du "Cubisme", also written Du Cubisme, or Du « Cubisme », is a book written in 1912 by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. This was the first major text on Cubism, predating Les Peintres Cubistes by Guillaume Apollinaire (1913). The book is illustrated with black and white photographs of works by Paul Cézanne (1), Gleizes (5), Metzinger (5), Fernand Léger (5), Juan Gris (1), Francis Picabia (2), Marcel Duchamp (2), Pablo Picasso (1), Georges Braque (1), André Derain (1), and Marie Laurencin (2).
Jean Metzinger, 1910, Nu à la cheminée (Nude). Exhibited at the 1910 Salon d'Automne. Published in Les Peintres Cubistes by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1913. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme"
(1) Jean Metzinger, 1911, Le goûter (Tea Time), Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibited at the 1911 Salon d'Automne. Published in Fantasio, Oct. 15, 1911, and Les Peintres Cubistes by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913. André Salmon dubbed this painting "The Mona Lisa of Cubism". Reproduced in Du "Cubisme" (2) Juan Gris, 1912, Hommage à Pablo Picasso, Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibited at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants
Abbaye de Créteil, ca.1908. First row: Charles Vildrac, René Arcos, Albert Gleizes, Barzun, Alexandre Mercereau. Second row: Georges Duhamel, Berthold Mahn, d'Otémar
Francis Picabia
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Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist closely associated with Dada.
Francis Picabia, 1912, La Source (The Spring), oil on canvas, 249.6 × 249.3 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne, Paris
Francis Picabia, c. 1909, Caoutchouc, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne
Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, Salle XI, between 1 October and 8 November 1912. Joseph Csaky (Groupe de femmes, sculpture front the left); Amedeo Modigliani (sculptures behind that of Csaky); paintings by František Kupka (Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors); Francis Picabia (The Spring); Jean Metzinger (Dancer in a café); and Henri Le Fauconnier (Mountaineers Attacked by Bears)