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) was a French art critic and writer, linked to the dada mouvement. She was the first wife of artist Francis Picabia.
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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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