The Handsome Pork-Butcher c.1924–6, c.1929–35 by Francis Picabia
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
King, Annette
Ormsby, Bronwyn
Date published
2017
Abstract
This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects such as combs, needles, curtain rings and pen nibs, all embedded in thick oil paint. Picabia subsequently ripped off the collage elements and painted the outline of a femme fatale over the ruins of the portrait. This canvas exemplifies Picabia’s creative methods, investigated in detail here using X-radiography and other technical imaging, material analysis, and a contemporary photograph.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
28
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright
Collection