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New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

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Francis Picabia
Age: 73 †
Born: 1879
Born: January 1
Died: 1953
Died: January 1
Drawer
Painter
Poet
Screenwriter
Sculptor
Writer
Paris
France
Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia
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