Portrait of a Woman
Before he became the wild child of the Dada movement, Francis Picabia was busy mastering the moody, expressive portrait. In this striking profile of a woman, heavy, dark outlines carve her face out of a murky, olive-green background, giving her a look of intense, almost melancholic contemplation. The heavy drapery of her headscarf swallows her shoulders, focusing all our attention on her piercing, shadowed eyes. It is a fascinating glimpse into the artist's early figurative phase, long before he started painting the mechanical monsters that made him famous.
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