Opening with Picabia's solid early Cubist
paintings which quickly diffused various critics» claims of painterly illiteracy, the show plows ahead through Picabia's scintillating obsession with Dada, examines his short - lived fascination with film, explores cutting edge experiments with Renaissance and Transparency
painting techniques, shows his
controversial war - time figurative
paintings, and ends (rather deflatedly) with his return to Abstraction.