Francis PICABIA, Painter Poet

Francis Picabia, The Idyll. Musee de Grenoble

Francis Martinez de Picabia (1879-1953), avant-gardiste extraordinaire put painting in his poetry and poetry in his paintings.

Rolling Around

Still water dislocation string bean explosion
Flutes signal at my feet pregnant irregular
Chopped a little a hieroglyph folded in a hieroglyph
Magic fences all around me horizontal
On all sides
Like at noon
Like at birth like at nothing

52 Mirroirs by F Picabia

(our translation)

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