Pavonia
1929
An oil painting titled Pavonia by Francis Picabia from 1929, representing the artist's exploration of abstraction and surrealist influences during this period. The work demonstrates Picabia's innovative approach to modernist painting.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Surrealism and Its Legacy
March 16, 2022
Estimate: $6,000,000 to $8,000,000
Lot 5
Spotted works by Francis Picabia
Artists in conversation
Man Ray
American · b. 1890
Man Ray was a central figure in both Dada and Surrealism and like Picabia in Pavonia he blended abstraction with provocative imagery and bold compositional choices rooted in modernist experimentation during the same 1920s period.
Max Ernst
German · b. 1891
Max Ernst shared Picabia's commitment to Surrealist abstraction and innovative painterly techniques producing vibrant oil on canvas works in the late 1920s that combined dreamlike imagery with bold formal abstraction similar to Pavonia.
Joan Miró
Spanish · b. 1893
Miró's late 1920s paintings exhibit the same fusion of abstraction and Surrealist sensibility seen in Pavonia with vibrant colors bold forms and a modernist vocabulary that parallels Picabia's exploratory approach to painting during this era.
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