The Spring

Francis Picabia · Saint Cloud, spring or summer 1912

Before you is The Spring, painted by Picabia at Saint Cloud in nineteen twelve, the year he first exhibited with the Cubists. The figures are still legible, but the palette and the rhythm are already pulling toward abstraction.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 8' 2 1/4" x 8' 2 1/8" (249.6 x 249.3 cm) · Credit Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Collection, given by their family

Hanging beside it in Gallery 503: Mme Kupka among Verticals

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, Exit the Ballets Russes, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, The Kitchen, Bridge, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky

More by Francis Picabia here: Tarentelle, I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie