Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia
| Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Gabrièle Buffet 21 November 1881 Fontainebleau |
| Died |
7 December 1985 (aged 104) Paris |
| Occupation |
Essayist Art critic |
| Spouse(s) | Francis Picabia |
Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia (often spelled Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia), (21 November 1881 – 7 December 1985[1]) was a French art critic and writer, linked to the dada mouvement. She was the first wife of artist Francis Picabia.
Biography
Gabrielle Buffet was the daughter of Alphée Buffet and his wife Laure Hugueteau de Chaillé. She studied music at the Schola Cantorum in Paris by Vincent d'Indy, later in Berlin by Ferruccio Busoni. She grew up with a brother artist painted with classicism, far from the visionary works of her future husband[2].
In January 1909, she married painter Francis Picabia, and her influence inspired him to compose his painting as musical pieces.
In Zurich they met Hans Arp and Tristan Tzara. In October 1912, while she was with her mother in the family home of Étival, Picabia rejoined her along Guillaume Apollinaire and Marcel Duchamp.[3] Apollinaire ended his poem Zone, which introduces the poem cycle Alcools.
This journey served as an inspiration to Duchamp who wrote four « notes marginales » « Route Jura-Paris » from La Boîte de 1914.[4] Duchamp created a prelude to his work La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même. On the basis of the meeting, a book was published with essays on Cubism, Les peintres cubistes, by Apollinaire, financed by Picabia.[5]
The marriage with Francis Picabia, which gave four children, Laure, Pancho, Jeanine and Vincente, ended in divorce in 1930. From 1941, during the Second World War, she was a member of the French Resistance in Paris, alongside Samuel Beckett, Mary Reynolds, Suzanne Picabia and others.[6]
She died past the age of 104.
In August 2017, the authors Anne and Claire Berest, great-granddaughters of this decisive figure in the art world, continue to tell her story in the book Gabriëlle, published by Stock[2].
Filmography
- Dada (1967) by Marcel Janco and Greta Deses in der Internet Movie Database.
Selected publications
- Impressionnisme musical. In: Section d'Or, Nr. 1, 9. October 1912
- Modern Art and the public. In: Camera Work, June 1913
- Musique d’aujourd'hui. In: Les Soirées de Paris, Nr. 22, March 1914
- Jean Arp, Essay. In: L’Art abstrait, Presses littéraires de France, 1952
- Aires abstraites. Pierre Cailler Éditeur, Geneva 1957 (foreword by Jean Arp)
- Picabia, l’inventeur. In: L'Œil, Nr. 18, June 1956
- DADA. Dichtungen der Gründer. Dada Gedichte von Andre Breton, Gabrielle Buffet, F. Hardekopf, Emmy Hennings, J. van Hoddis, R. Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, W. Kandinsky, Francis Picabia, Walter Serner, Ph. Soupault, Tristan Tzara. Peter Schifferli Verlags AG Die Arche, Zürich 1957
- Rencontres avec Picabia, Apollinaire, Cravan, Duchamp, Arp, Calder. P. Belfond, Paris 1977, ISBN 2-7144-1113-4
- Gabriëlle, Anne Berest, Claire Berest, Paris, 450p, collection La Bleue, Stock, 2017, ISBN 2234080320
Translations
- Vassily Kandinsky, Regard sur le passé, Galerie René Drouin, 1946
References
- ↑ Lebensdaten auf geneall.net, accessdate 27 March 2017
- 1 2 Le Vaillant, Luc (July 2017). "2 soeurs. 3 femmes". Libération (in French): 24.
- ↑ Gabrièle Buffet-Picabia, Aires abstraites, Pierre Cailler Éditeur, Geneva, 1957
- ↑ Duchamp du signe, Flammarion, collection « Champs», 1994, (p. 41–42).
- ↑ Quoted from the Weblink jura-paris-centenary.com
- ↑ Mary Reynolds, artic.edu, accessdate 27 March 2017
External links
- Fiche sur les site des Français libres
- Naissance de l'esprit Dada sur le site de l'INA
- Correspondance avec André Breton
- short biography in jura-paris-centenary.com
- Photograph of the Picabia, 1921
