PICABIA, Francis

Born in Paris of a Cuban father and a French mother, Picabia grew up a French artist, beginning as an Impressionist, becoming a Cubist, and by 1912 following Robert Delaunay's (1885–1941) Orphism. Traveling to New York in 1913, he collaborated with his compatriot Marcel Duchamp , who was by 1915 also in New York, in establishing American Dada. Having contributed to Alfred Stieglitz 's periodical 291 in 1916, Picabia published in 1917 the first number of his Dada review in 1916, Picabia published in 1917 the first number of his Dada review ...