PICABIA.- BROWN (Henry T.). Five hundred... - Lot 584 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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PICABIA.- BROWN (Henry T.). Five hundred... - Lot 584 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
PICABIA.- BROWN (Henry T.). Five hundred and seven mechanical movements containing all those which are most important in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, steam engines, mills and other machines, presses, clocks and miscellaneous machines and containing many unpublished movements and several which have only recently come into use. Translated from the English by H. Stévart. Brux, Gustave Mayolez; Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880, square in-12, 124 p., 507 figures grouped on the left-hand pages, brown cloth ed. with double fillet in black on the boards, title in black and figure on the upper board (cloth rubbed, hinge weakened, some traces of use). Very rare manual of mechanics that Picabia used to paint or draw "English Magneto", "Beware of painting", "Love parade", "Portrait of Marie-Laurencin", "Totalizer", "Hydraulic press". "It is relatively rare to be able to trace in this way the process of inspiration that a leading artist has used for a series of major works. Here we have a classic case of misappropriation: Picabia has taken certain elements of detail scattered throughout this illustrated manual and transmuted this raw material into painted collages or drawings, some of which are reproduced in '291' or '391'. This process of detour in fact, dismantles and dadaizes the mechanics. Process, which has strictly nothing in common with the cult dedicated to the machine and to the speed by the futurists " (J.-J. Lebel. Picabia, motor with all tendencies, p. 10 and reproduction of the title page of the manual p. 11. Supplement to the catalog of the exhibition " Arc en ciel - Francis Picabia ". P., Galerie 1900-2000, s.d. [1987]), which stated that the only known copy was the one that appeared in this exhibition.
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