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Jacques Villon
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{{short description|French painter}}File:Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon in the garden of Villon’s studio, Puteaux, France, c.1913.jpg|350px|thumb|right|Three Duchamp brothers, left to right: Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon in the garden of Jacques Villon’s studio in Puteaux, France, 1914, (Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian InstitutionFile:Villon petit manege.jpg|thumb|200px|Le Petit Manège, rue Caulaincourt, 1905, University of Michigan Museum of Art ]]Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker.- the content below is remote from Wikipedia
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Early life
Born Ãmile Méry Frédéric Gaston DuchampArchives nationales de France, Base de données Léonore in Damville, Eure, in Normandy, France, he came from a prosperous and artistically inclined family. While he was a young man, his maternal grandfather Ãmile Frédéric Nicolle, a successful businessman and artist, educated Villon and his siblings.Gaston Duchamp was the elder brother of:- Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876â1918), sculptor
- Marcel Duchamp (1887â1968), painter, sculptor and author
- Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (1889â1963), painter
Honors
File:Jacques Villon Stained Glass Windows, Metz.jpg|thumb|Stained glass windows of Jacques Villon in the Saint-Stephen Cathedral in MetzMetzAn exhibition of Jacques Villon’s work was held in Paris in 1944 at the Galerie Louis Carré, following which he received honors at a number of international exhibitions. In 1938 he was named Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honor. In 1947 he was promoted to Officier (Officer) of the Legion of Honor. In 1950, Villon received the Carnegie Prize, the highest award for painting in the world, and in 1954 he was made a Commandeur (Commander) of the Legion of Honor. The following year he was commissioned to design stained-glass windows for the cathedral at Metz, France. In 1956 he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale exhibition.Among Villon’s greatest achievements as a printmaker was his creation of a purely graphic language for cubism â an accomplishment that no other printmaker, including his fellow cubists Pablo Picasso or Georges Braque, could claim.Villon died in his studio at Puteaux.In 1967, in Rouen, his last surviving artist brother Marcel helped organize an exhibition called Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp. Some of this family exhibition was later shown at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris.Many important museums include works by Villon in their collections, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago; Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, Ohio); Museum of Modern Art, New York City; University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Michigan); National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia); Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and Musée Jenisch (Vevey, Switzerland).Leading private collections which include the works of Villon are the Joachim Collection of Chicago, the Vess Collection of Detroit, and the Ginestet Collection of Paris.Art market
In May 2004, an oil painting by Villon dated 1913 entitled L’Acrobate and measuring 39 ¼ by 28 ¼ inches sold at Sotheby’s for $1,296,000 (US dollars).References
{{Reflist}}Bibliography
- Tomkins, Calvin, Duchamp: A Biography. Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996. {{ISBN|0-8050-5789-7}}
External links
- Francis Steegmuller Collection of Jacques Villon. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
- Artcyclopedia Links to Villon’s works
- www.jacquesvillon.info/index.html" title="web.archive.org/web/20070220172921www.jacquesvillon.info/index.html">Jacques Villon.info
- Works by Jacques Villons at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
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