Jacques Villon Art
French, 1875-1963
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.to
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Artist: Jacques Villon
Le Petit Équilibriste
By Jacques Villon
Located in London, GB
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 m...
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1910s Cubist Jacques Villon Art
Manége Rue Caulaincourt ou Le Petit Manége Aux Chevaux de Bois
By Jacques Villon
Located in London, GB
JACQUES VILLON 1875-1963
(Gaston Duchamp) Damville 1875-1963 Paris (French)
Title: Manége Rue Caulaincourt ou Le Petit Manége Aux Chevaux de Bois, 1904
Technique: Original H...
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Early 1900s Jacques Villon Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Jacques Villon - Cubist Landscape - Original Etching
By Jacques Villon
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques Villon - Cubist Landscape - Original Etching
Circa 1950
Signed in pencil
Jacques Villon (1875 - 1963)
Jacques Villon was born Gaston Duchamp on July 31, 1875, in Damville,...
Category
1950s Modern Jacques Villon Art
Materials
Etching
Jacques Villon - Surreal Cubism - Original Etching
By Jacques Villon
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques Villon - Surreal Cubism - Original Etching
Paris, Le Gerbier, 1946
Edition of 340
Dimensions : 33 x 24.3 cm
Unsigned and unumbered as issued
Category
1940s Modern Jacques Villon Art
Materials
Etching
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