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==Legacy== Public collections holding works by Picabia include the [[Museum of Modern Art]] and [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]] in [[New York City|New York]]; the [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]]; the [[Art Institute of Chicago]]; the [[Tate Gallery]], London and the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]], Paris. In the mid-1980s two of Picabia's Dada writings, ''Who Knows'' and ''Yes No'' were published in English by [[Hanuman Books]] and in 2007 [[MIT Press]] published a large book of his poetry and other writings in English called ''I Am a Beautiful Monster: Poetry, Prose, and Provocation'' that was translated by Marc Lowenthal. A major retrospective of Picabia's work in the United States was held in 2016 at [[Kunsthaus Zürich]] and then from 2016 to 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.<ref>English Press release to be found under http://www.kunsthaus.ch/fileadmin/templates/kunsthaus/pdf/medienmitteilungen/2016/mm2_picabia_e.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119051507/http://www.kunsthaus.ch/fileadmin/templates/kunsthaus/pdf/medienmitteilungen/2016/mm2_picabia_e.pdf |date=19 January 2017 }}</ref> The retrospective was widely discussed by international art critics such as Philippe Dagen from ''[[Le Monde]]''.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2016/07/09/francis-picabia-la-peinture-a-vive-allure_4966835_3246.html | title=Francis Picabia, la peinture à vive allure | newspaper=Le Monde.fr | date=9 July 2016 }}</ref> Among the artists influenced by Picabia's work are the American artists [[David Salle]] and [[Julian Schnabel]], the German artist [[Sigmar Polke]], and the Italian artist [[Francesco Clemente]].<ref>{{cite web |last=ARTnews |date=7 October 2016 |title=Then and Now: Picabia, Grasshopper of Modern Art |url=http://www.artnews.com/2016/10/07/then-and-now-picabia-grasshopper-of-modern-art/ |access-date=21 March 2018 |website=ARTnews}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=http://ropac.net/exhibition/david-salle-francis-picabia | title=David Salle | David Salle / Francis Picabia }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/28/arts/review-art-picabia-s-transparences-layers-of-many-meanings.html|title=Review/Art; Picabia's 'Transparences': Layers of Many Meanings|first=Michael|last=Kimmelman|website=[[The New York Times]]| date=28 April 1989 |access-date=21 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/23/arts/art-view-what-is-sigmar-polke-laughing-about.html?pagewanted=all|title=ART VIEW; What Is Sigmar Polke Laughing About?|first=Michael|last=Kimmelman|website=[[The New York Times]]| date=23 December 1990 |access-date=21 March 2018}}</ref> In 1996, French artist [[Jean-Jacques Lebel]] initiated and co-curated the exhibition ''Picabia, Dalmau 1922'' (with reference to Picabia's solo exhibition at [[Galeries Dalmau]] in 1922) shown at [[Fundació Antoni Tàpies]] in Barcelona and the [[Musée National d'Art Moderne]], [[Centre Pompidou]]. In 2002, the artists [[Peter Fischli & David Weiss]] installed [[Suzanne Pagé]]'s retrospective devoted to Picabia at the [[musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris]] (MAMVP). In 2003, a Picabia painting once owned by [[André Breton]] sold for US$1.6{{nbsp}}million.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/2959029.stm|title=Surrealist sale smashes records|date=18 April 2003|access-date=21 March 2018|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}</ref> Picabia's ''Volucelle II'' ({{circa|1922}}) sold for US$8,789,000 at [[Sotheby's]] in 2013, then the highest price for one of the artist's works.<ref name=AN22></ref><ref>[http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/impressionist-modern-art-evening-sale-n09035/lot.11.html Francis Picabia, ''Volucelle II'', {{Circa|1922}}, Ripolin on canvas, 198,5 x 249 cm], US$8,789,000. Sotheby's, Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, New York, Wednesday, 6 November 2013</ref> A new record was set in 2022 with the sale of ''Pavonia'' at Sotheby's for US$11{{nbsp}}million.<ref name=AN22> {{cite web |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/picabia-record-sothebys-surrealism-sale-1234622125/ |title=Record-Breaking Picabia Painting Brings Sotheby's Surrealism Sale to $37 M |last=Villa |first=Angelica |date=17 March 2022 |website=ARTnews |publisher= |access-date=7 August 2023 |quote=}}</ref>
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