Page "Francis Picabia" Paragraph 2

In 1894, Picabia financed his stamp collection by copying a collection of Spanish paintings that belonged to his father, switching the originals for the copies, without his father's knowledge, and selling the originals.

Fernand Cormon took him into his academy at 104 boulevard de Clichy, where Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec had also studied.

From the age of 20, he lived by painting ; he subsequently inherited money from his mother.