The Procession, Seville

The Procession, Seville is an oil on canvas painting by French artist Francis Picabia, executed in 1912. It has the dimensions of 121,9 by 121, cm. It is held at the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D.C.[1]

The Procession, Seville (1912) by Francis Picabia

History and description

The painting was first exhibited at the Salon de la Section d'Or in 1912, at the Salon des Indépendants in 1913 and then at the Armory Show, in Chicago, the same year.

It depicts his interpretation of a religious procession in Seville, Spain, a country that he had visited in 1909 during his honeymoon. It reveals both the influence of the analytic cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and of Italian futurist painters like Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni, with the semi-abstract presence of bodies in motion.[2][3]

References
  1. The Procession, Seville, National Gallery of Art Official Website
  2. The Procession, Seville, National Gallery of Art Official Website
  3. William Camfield, Francis Picabia: His Art, Life and Times, Princeton, 1979, pp. 32-33


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