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"Coup de coeur" by Jacques Villon
Londres, d'après Maximilien Luce - 1929 - Décembre 2023
Stamp by Jacques Villon
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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A tribute to Jacques Villon
Gaston Duchamp prit le pseudonyme de Jacques Villon en hommage au poète François Villon. Alors qu’il est dans sa 88ème année, il s’éteint le 9 juin 1963, dans son atelier de Puteaux, où il avait travaillé pendant près de soixante ans. Il lui fut rendu hommage par des funérailles nationales. Il repose au cimetière de Rouen auprès de ceux de sa famille, dont ses frères Marcel Duchamp et Raymond Duchamp-Villon, ce dernier mort dans l’hôpital militaire de Cannes en 1918. Cette épitaphe, phrase de Marcel Duchamp, est gravée sur leur tombe : « D’ailleurs, c’est toujours les autres qui meurent. » En hommage à leur mémoire, une pivoine en leur jardin d’eternité.
"Jacques Villon, aussi accueillant et cordial qu’on peut l’être, chez qui on se chauffait en faisant flamber des journaux dans le milieu de l’atelier. Il hospitalisait une équipe hétéroclite et interchangeable de peintres sans chevalets, d’échotiers sans échos, un ancien garçon charcutier, un futur Prix de Rome de composition musicale, et Bibi-la-Purée." - Francis Jourdain
"L’oeuvre est considérable, elle a marqué une date dans l’histoire de la gravure." - André Roussard
"Je pense que des millénaires auront succédé aux millénaires et que la gravure témoignera toujours de la présence des hommes. La peinture sera réduite à un dessin d'expression, imitant la gravure, dessin simplifié." - Jacques Villon
"Villon m’a touché par sa sincérité, par sa poésie, par sa modestie et par une couleur discrète et lumineuse." - Louis Carré
"Les trois Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, constituent le trio fraternel le plus dissemblable et le plus uni de l'art moderne." - Pierre Cabanne
"Jacques Villon travaillait sous un pseudonyme afin de ménager ses parents, qui ne pensaient pas qu’on puisse faire carrière dans les beaux arts. Mais malgré l'attitude peu stimulante du couple Duchamp, quatre de leurs six enfants choisirent une carrière artistique." - Anonyme
Notes of biography
Gaston Duchamp, later to become Jacques Villon, was born in 1875 in Damville (France) He learnt to draw and print at a very early age with his grandfather, the painter and engraver Emile Nicole. He studied and became a lawyer’s clerk in Rouen. He later joined his brothers Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp in Paris, where he adopted his pseudonym name and started publishing .his works in the local satirical newspapers. Villon enrolled at the Rouen Beaux Arts in the Atelier Cormon.
From 1899 he concentrated on etchings and prints, and as of 1903 he began exhibiting at the Salon d’Automne. He joined his brothers in Puteaux in 1906 and from 1911 to1925 he entertained a number of artists in his studio who were later to become the Puteaux Group better know as the “Golden Mean” group. From 1908 he created his first Cubist paintings.
From 1911 his aim became “to show that he could exist in the face of Cubism - the phenomenon of rupture, an art of construction and analysis based on duration”. In 1913 he took part in the Armory Show in New York. In 1913 he was called up, fought on the Champagne and Artois fronts and then went on to join the camouflage service in 1916 where he met Dunoyer de Segonzac, André Mare, etc.
After the war Villon focused his work on “constructive decomposition”. In 1921 he organized his first exhibition in Paris. During the 1920’s and 1930’s his painting became abstract, using colour in geometric spaces. Towards 1935 figures become more and more apparent in his works.
During and after the Second World War he started painting landscapes, trees, animals, portraits and auto-portraits in a style that he called “impressionist Cubism”. In 1965 he was granted the Biennal of Venice painting award. Villon produced scenery, he created stained glass windows for the Metz Cathedral and from 1922 to 1930 he concentrated on his etchings, which included works of Manet, Cezanne, Picasso, Matisse and many others. They have since been restored by the Louvre Chalcography.
Jacques Villon died in Puteaux in 1963.
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Complete work(s)
Complete work(s)
*« L’oeuvre gravé », J. Auberty & C. Perusseaux, Louis Carré, Paris, 1954 *« Oeuvres de 1897 à 1956 », Dora Vallier, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, 1957Bibliographic track and more
To read about the artist :
- « Eloge de Jacques Villon », Jacques Lassaigne, Ed. Manuel Bruker, 1955
- « Jacques Villon », Jean Tardieu, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, 1961
- « Jacques Villon », J. Cassou & D. Vallier, RMN, Paris, 1975
- « The brothers Duchamp », Pierre Cabane, Ed. New York Graphic Society, 1981
- « Jacques Villon », cat., Musée des Jacobins, Morlaix, 1988
- « Jacques Villon at Gravelines », L. Goldschimdt, Ed. Print Quarterly, in vol. VII, 1990
- « Jacques Villon », cat., Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, 1991
- « Jacques Villon : Raumbegriff und Raumkonzeption… » D. Schmit, Ed. Athena-Verlag, 2003
- « J. Villon. Né Gaston Duchamp », G. Viatte, Ed. Expressions contemporaines, 2012
- « Les Vitraux de Jacques Villon », Christian Schmitt, Ed. des Paraiges, 2014
To read from the artist :
- « Souvenir de J.V. », M. Morel & autres, Ed. L. Carré, Paris, 1963
- « J. Villon : A collection of Graphic Work, 1896/1913 », Ed. Lucien Goldschmidt Inc, 1970
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Stamp by Jacques Villon
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsA artist's consent, a hope
Private collection / This document is not for sale
A tribute to Jacques Villon
Gaston Duchamp prit le pseudonyme de Jacques Villon en hommage au poète François Villon. Alors qu’il est dans sa 88ème année, il s’éteint le 9 juin 1963, dans son atelier de Puteaux, où il avait travaillé pendant près de soixante ans. Il lui fut rendu hommage par des funérailles nationales. Il repose au cimetière de Rouen auprès de ceux de sa famille, dont ses frères Marcel Duchamp et Raymond Duchamp-Villon, ce dernier mort dans l’hôpital militaire de Cannes en 1918. Cette épitaphe, phrase de Marcel Duchamp, est gravée sur leur tombe : « D’ailleurs, c’est toujours les autres qui meurent. » En hommage à leur mémoire, une pivoine en leur jardin d’eternité.
"Jacques Villon, aussi accueillant et cordial qu’on peut l’être, chez qui on se chauffait en faisant flamber des journaux dans le milieu de l’atelier. Il hospitalisait une équipe hétéroclite et interchangeable de peintres sans chevalets, d’échotiers sans échos, un ancien garçon charcutier, un futur Prix de Rome de composition musicale, et Bibi-la-Purée." - Francis Jourdain
"L’oeuvre est considérable, elle a marqué une date dans l’histoire de la gravure." - André Roussard
"Je pense que des millénaires auront succédé aux millénaires et que la gravure témoignera toujours de la présence des hommes. La peinture sera réduite à un dessin d'expression, imitant la gravure, dessin simplifié." - Jacques Villon
"Villon m’a touché par sa sincérité, par sa poésie, par sa modestie et par une couleur discrète et lumineuse." - Louis Carré
"Les trois Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, constituent le trio fraternel le plus dissemblable et le plus uni de l'art moderne." - Pierre Cabanne
"Jacques Villon travaillait sous un pseudonyme afin de ménager ses parents, qui ne pensaient pas qu’on puisse faire carrière dans les beaux arts. Mais malgré l'attitude peu stimulante du couple Duchamp, quatre de leurs six enfants choisirent une carrière artistique." - Anonyme
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+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
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