IT HAS become a trend for big exhibitions to feature more than one artist, so they sound like arty advertising agencies—"Matisse Picasso", "Turner Whistler Monet", "Duchamp Man Ray Picabia".

近来的大型艺术展上，将几位艺术家同台展示已蔚然成风，而画展的名字则好似那些附庸风雅的广告公司一般——“马蒂斯.毕加索”，“特纳.惠斯勒.莫奈”, “杜尚.曼雷.皮卡比阿”。

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Francis Picabia's "La Source (The Spring)" of 1912 several versions are shown in the catalog epitomizes the effort involved in illustrating imagined forms while not actually representing anything specific at all.

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But few works, since Francis Picabia's depiction of Marie Laurencin as an imaginary machine, challenge convention as much as the portrait of Sir John Sulston by Marc Quinn, recently unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.

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