I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie
Francis Picabia
French, 1879–1953
Paris, June - July 1914
An oil painting in which Picabia dissolves the remembered figure “Udnie” into interlocking mechanical and organic forms to evoke the sensation of movement.
What hits you is a rhythmic tangle of curved and angular planes—pale yellows, muted pinks and steely grays—stacked and knotted like gears and limbs so the composition reads as a machine-like dance rather than a single, stable body.
Bridging Cubist fragmentation and Futurist dynamism, this work makes visible the modern fascination with machines and motion and points toward Picabia’s later Dada provocations and the loosening of representational painting.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
8' 2 1/2" x 6' 6 1/4" (250.2 x 198.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Hillman Periodicals Fund
Accession
4.1954
Palette
Art Terms
Exhibitions
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