Francis Picabia, "Late Paintings"

Francis Picabia (1879–1953) painted these canvases in the years leading up to the Second World War, well after his heyday as the bad boy of Dadaism on two continents. But it is precisely during this period that he reinvented himself time and again by pushing the boundaries of painting: first by creating his layered "transparency" painting, in which images or their outlines floated atop one another, and later with his "kitsch" paintings based on girlie-magazine models.