Picabia, in true Dada spirit, was among the first to dare venture into a category of images expressive of popular culture. The series of nudes that he did during the World War II was inspired by “girlie” magazines of the '30s. Using the techniques of photography and collage, he reworked the images, inserting or removing figures or.... [http://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/content/flvinternet/en/expositions/exposition-les-clefs-d-une-passion/francis-picabia-portrait-d-un-couple--le-cerisier-.html] Picabia continued to cycle through styles and experiment with unorthodox materials. Although he renounced Dada in 1921, certain tenets of that movement persisted in his work, including the appropriation of found imagery: in one of his last stylistic phases, he copied and recombined magazine photographs into new, painted compositions, as in Portrait of a Couple. Throughout, Picabia questioned the meaning and purpose of art even as he practiced it. In.... [https://www.moma.org/artists/4607]