FRANCIS PICABIA (Paris, 1879-1953)."Moret sur Loing, 1902.Oil on panel.Enclosed is a certificate issued by the Picabia Committee.Signed and dated.Size: 23,5 x 31 cm ; 34 x 41 cm (frame).In this work, Picabia, makes a view of Moret-sur-Loing, a French commune situated in the department of Seine-et-Marne, in the region of Ile-de-France. He uses a technique of Impressionist heritage, based on the use of a rapid brushstroke and the luminous treatment of the scene.Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, poet and typographer. After experimenting with Impressionism and Pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract, flat compositions were colourful and rich in contrast. He was one of the first important figures of the Dada movement in the United States and France. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment. Early in his career, from 1903 to 1908, Picabia was influenced by the Impressionist paintings of Alfred Sisley. From 1909 onwards, he came under the influence of the Cubists who would later form the Section d'Or (Golden Section). Picabia was the only member of the Cubist group to attend the Armory Show in New York in person, which enabled Alfred Stieglitz to facilitate a solo exhibition, Francis Picabia's New York Studies, at his gallery 291 (formerly Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession). Picabia travelled to New York City several times and was active in the avant-garde movements, introducing modern art to America. In 1922, André Breton relaunched the magazine Littérature with cover images by Picabia, to whom he gave carte blanche for each issue. 1925, Picabia returned to figurative painting, and during the 1930s he became a close friend of the modernist novelist Gertrude Stein. In the early 1940s he moved to the south of France, where his work took a surprising turn: he produced a series of paintings based on nude glamour shots in French "girlie" magazines such as Paris Sex-Appeal, and before the end of World War II, he returned to Paris, where he resumed abstract painting and writing poetry. Today his works are in important private and public collections. Highlights include the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Tate Gallery, London; the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; and Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands.