The grandfather of Post-Modernism

The second volume of Francis Picabias detailed catalogue raisonn takes us through the artists Dada period and the spectacular flourishing of his art in the 1920s. When volume I ended, Picabia was a painter of Orphism (a branch of Cubism) and had followed a clear career progression up to that point. Stranded in New York by the outbreak of war, Picabia became part of the anti-war Dada movement in America.
He drew enigmatic mechanical diagrams with allusive titles. He called these nonsense machine