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![Fille née sans mère [Girl Born without a Mother]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 3545.jpg)
- Francis Picabia
- Fille née sans mère [Girl Born without a Mother]
- about 1916 - 1917
- GMA 3545
- On Display
![Sotileza [Subtlety]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 4074.jpg)
- Francis Picabia
- Sotileza [Subtlety]
- about 1928
- GMA 4074
Francis Picabia (French, 1879 - 1953)
French-born Picabia was a highly versatile artist, working in a number of styles throughout his life. He experimented with Impressionism and Cubism, but it was for his work with the New York Dada group that he became most noted. Influenced by his friend Marcel Duchamp and by the enthusiasm for mechanisation in America, Picabia began depicting the machine in his work. Like Duchamp, Picabia had a taste for paradox and the absurd. He was never afraid to court unconventionality, and his works often had hidden ironic meanings.
