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JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963
(Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875-1963 Paris (French)
Title: Le Petit Équilibriste, 1914
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Etching with full margins on watermarked paper
Paper Size: 38.5 x 28.5 cm / 15.1 x 11.2 in
Plate Size: 21.5 x 16 cm / 8.5 x 6.2 in
Additional Information: This High quality early work by Jacques Villon is hand signed by the artist in pencil "Jacques Villon" at the lower right margin. It is also Hand Inscribed in the lower left margin "epreuve d'artiste" (artist Proof).
Furthermore the work is Signed and Dated in the plate in the left middle “Jacques Villon 14” (1914).
This Etching was printed in 1914 in a small limited edition of 50 Hand Signed and Numbered Impressions and a few Artist Proofs (our work is one of them). There is an old French Customs stamp in the lower right corner.
Provenance: This is a very early work by Villon dated from 1914. It belonged to The Collection of Olga Carre-Burel formally known as the Collection of Louis Carre. This was one of the most important collections of Villon's work in the world if not the most important one. Olga Carre (born Burel) was the wife of the important Paris Gallery owner and Collector Louis Carre. He passed away in 1977 and so his wife, Olga Carre, inherited his collection. Louis Carre was the main dealer of Jacques Villon and exhibited his works regularly in his Gallery in Paris and New York. Most of their collection was bought directly from the artists.
Literature: Jacques Villon-Les Estampes,Les Illustrations-Catalogue Raisonne, by Colette de Ginestet and Catherine Pouillon, published by Arts et Metiers Graphiques.
Reference: Ginestet et Pouillon E. 287 (fully illustrated in page 183).
Condition: Excellent condition, two glue tape remains in the upper reverse edges of the paper.
- Creator:Jacques Villon (1875-1963, French)
- Creation Year:1914
- Dimensions:Width: 15.16 in (38.5 cm)Depth: 11.23 in (28.5 cm)
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- Gallery Location:London, GB
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU180261322
Jacques Villon
Jacques Villon was born Gaston Duchamp in 1875. He was the oldest brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti and the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. Initially a law student, in 1894 he went to Paris to study art. It was there that he met Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and other influential artists in Paris, and changed his name to Jacques Villon, after the poet. Villon made prints of some of the most well-known belle-époque portraits and genre scenes of the early twentieth century. Around 1911, he came under the influence of Picasso and other cubists, and became a leading exponent of the style, exhibiting in the 1913 Armory Show in New York. In 1922, the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune commissioned Villon to produce a series of color aquatints after 38 major nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings. This series included works by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Amadeo Modigliani, Edouard Manet, Pierre Bonnard, and others. Artists who were alive at the time of the printing collaborated with Villon, and signed the prints. The project took ten years to complete. Several of these prints are valued highly today, and some went on to be reproduced by the Louvre Museum as photo-etchings. Villon's 'cubist' etchings, with their characteristic cross-hatching, are amongst the most renowned prints of the twentieth century. Jacques Villon's long career brought him fame. The diverse nature of his paintings, from end-of-the-century portraits to cubist and abstract styles to graphic works, made him a major figure in twentieth-century art. He was made a Grand Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, and upon his death in 1963, and he was given a state funeral.
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