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Jacques Villon

"Art is a mix of emotions and impressions where intellignece wins over sensitiv intuition."

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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, 1957 All the complete works

Bibliographic 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
Website :
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/villon

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Art movements

+ CUBISM / 1907-1925 / Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Dufresne, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Metzinger, etc.
+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
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