Meditations on Picabia across seven decades, from the acclaimed American realist painter In the 1950s, American painter Philip Pearlstein (1924-2022) completed his MA thesis, "The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908-1930." When his research coincided with Picabia's death in 1953, Pearlstein briefly became the authority on Picabia and his influence, writing three subsequent essays: "The Symbolic Language of Francis Picabia"...