Jean Crotti
Switzerland (1878—1958)
Born in the French speaking Switzerland, Crotti studied art in Paris, despite his father’s wishes. He experimented with Cubism and Orphism in a fragile social context following WWI. On a visit to his brother in US, he decided to settle in New York. Here he met Francis Picabia and Marcel Duchamp, who became close friends. He got married with Suzanne Duchamp, and created Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, made to measure. In 1920 Crotti created his masterpiece Portrait of Thomas Edison.
Jean Cocteau / Jean Crotti / Walter Serner / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Tristan Tzara
391
Dieu nous aide et fait pousser le caca / Magazine / Letterpress / 32.6 x 49.2 cm / Paris, 1924 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020
La pomme de Pins
Magazine / Letterpress / 28.5 x 38.1 cm / Saint-Raphael, 1922
Paul Joostens / Jozef Peeters / Jean Crotti / Paul Éluard / Lajos Kassák / Francis Picabia / Theo Van Doesburg
Ça Ira!
Revue mensuelle d’art et de critique / Magazine / Letterpress / 22 x 28.5 / 14 x 22 / Antwerp, 1920-1923
Wyndham Lewis / Umberto Boccioni / Georges Vantongerloo / Jean Crotti / Jean Arp / Paul Éluard / Max Ernst / Raoul Hausmann / Filippo Tommaso Marinetti / László Moholy-Nagy / Francis Picabia / Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) / Kurt Schwitters / Tristan Tzara / Theo Van Doesburg / Piet Mondriaan
Mécano
Magazine / Letterpress / Various sizes / Leiden, 1922-1924
Le Pilhaou-Thibaou
Supplément illustré de “391” / Magazine / 25 x 31.9 cm / Paris, 1921 / © Francis Picabia c/o Sabam, 2020