Man Ray, The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows 1916, The Museum of Modern Art, New York © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008, Oil on Canvas, 132.1 x 186.4 cm.

LONDON.-Tate Modern presents Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, on view through May 26, 2008. This exhibition aims to chart the artistic and personal relationships of three of the great figures in early twentieth-century art, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia.

Together they created the Dada movement in New York during the First World War, and, unusually within the history of modern art, they remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives.At the heart of the friendships lay a shared outlook on life, manifested in their works through jokes and a sense of irony, iconoclastic gestures, and a pronounced, if often coded, interest in sexual relations and eroticism. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia aims to explore the various affinities and parallels between the work of these three, showing how they responded to each others’ ideas and innovations.

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Francis Picabia, Femmes au Bull-Dog ("Rodrigo") 1940- 1942, Centre Pompidou © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008. Oil on cardboard, 105 x 76 cm