PicabiaIn his chateau, Francis Picabia designed each room in a different theme. The children's room he furnished with bizarre witchcraft paraphernalia, grotesque masks, instruments of torture, and a mechanical ghost which could be activated to rattle chains.
He had chosen this questionable theme, he once explained, because he believed in encouraging fearlessness from an early age: "When they get a bit older," he added, "I shall replace the ghost with a creditor waving an unpaid bill."
Picabia, Francis (1879-1953) Spanish-born French painter and writer [noted for his early espousal of Dadaism and for his pioneering journal 391 (1917-24)]
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