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Picabia | The Artistic Alchemist Sotheby’s upcoming auction Surrealism and Its Legacy (16 March 2022 | Paris) covers a huge sweep of artists from Dadaism, Surrealism and those that followed. In this latest video, we explore two Picabia masterpieces: ‘Pavonia’, a cinematic example from his ‘Transparencies’ series, and ‘Nu de Dos’, a striking and controversial female nude. Click here to watch more Sotheby’s videos.

Surrealism and Its Legacy

16 March 2022 | 6:00 PM CET | Paris

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