
Deux têtes
1934
Francis Picabia's Deux têtes is an oil on canvas painting created in 1934. The work reflects Picabia's explorations of figuration and abstract forms during this period of his artistic practice.
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Art Impressionniste et Moderne Day Sale
March 18, 2021
Estimate: $80,000 to $120,000
Lot 214
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Salvador Dalí
Spanish · b. 1904

Dalí similarly blended figuration with dreamlike distortion in Surrealist oil paintings from the same era, creating enigmatic portrait compositions that balance recognizable human forms with psychological ambiguity much like Picabia's dual figure study.

Max Ernst
German · b. 1891

Ernst worked at the intersection of Dada and Surrealism using oil on canvas to produce mysterious figurative imagery with a restrained monochromatic sensibility, closely paralleling Picabia's enigmatic and conceptually layered approach to portraiture in the 1930s.

René Magritte
Belgian · b. 1898

Magritte consistently explored enigmatic double and obscured portrait compositions in oil on canvas within the Surrealist tradition, sharing Picabia's interest in destabilizing conventional figuration and creating psychologically charged images of the human face and head.
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