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  • Editor
· French · 1879–1953

Francis Picabia

Dada's fastest engine — machine portraits, the journal 391, and the scenario for Entr'acte, dashed off on Maxim's letterhead for the ballet Relâche.

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Lived
1879–1953
Born
1879
Died
1953
Nationality
French
Roles
PainterEditor

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Illustrated portrait of Rolf de Maré

Rolf de Maré

  • Patron
  • Archivist

Supported by · 1924

Picabia wrote the scenario for Relâche in 1924 and, for its interval, the film Entr'acte that de Maré's company had René Clair direct.

— The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center — Rolf de Maré, Modern Art Index Project

Illustrated portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

  • Painter
  • Sculptor
  • Filmmaker

Collaborated with

Duchamp and Picabia were close from around 1911 and central to Dada in New York and Paris, sharing its machine imagery and its attack on artistic seriousness. Picabia's review 391 and the pair's transatlantic activity carried Dada between the two cities.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — Marcel Duchamp

René Clair

  • Filmmaker

Collaborated with · 1924

Picabia wrote the scenario for Entr'acte and handed it to Clair, then twenty-six, to film. It ran between the acts of Picabia's ballet Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in December 1924, and both men appear in it.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — René Clair; The Museum of Modern Art — Entr'acte (collection record)

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The theater's pale stone-and-concrete front in daylight, gilded reliefs above the marquee and trees along the avenue

Theatre · Champs-Élysées

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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Picabia wrote the scenario for Entr'acte and handed it to Clair, then twenty-six, to film. It ran between the acts of Picabia's ballet Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in December 1924, and both men appear in it.

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Supported by · 1924

Rolf de Maré

Picabia wrote the scenario for Relâche in 1924 and, for its interval, the film Entr'acte that de Maré's company had René Clair direct.

— The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center — Rolf de Maré, Modern Art Index Project

Collaborated with

Marcel Duchamp

Duchamp and Picabia were close from around 1911 and central to Dada in New York and Paris, sharing its machine imagery and its attack on artistic seriousness. Picabia's review 391 and the pair's transatlantic activity carried Dada between the two cities.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — Marcel Duchamp

Collaborated with · 1924

René Clair

Picabia wrote the scenario for Entr'acte and handed it to Clair, then twenty-six, to film. It ran between the acts of Picabia's ballet Relâche at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in December 1924, and both men appear in it.

— Encyclopaedia Britannica — René Clair; The Museum of Modern Art — Entr'acte (collection record)