Ah lady! (1904)
Jacques Villon (Damville, July 31, 1875 - Puteaux, June 9, 1963) was a French painter. His real name was Gaston Duchamp.
Duchamp was the oldest of an artist family of six children, including his brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor, Marcel Duchamp, painter, and his sister Suzanne Duchamp, painter. In 1894 Gaston took over the name of his beloved poet as a pseudonym. He was named Jacques Villon from now on.
He gave his youngsters his rights in order to enter the artistic way. He received a first graduation in Montmartre, in the studio of Cornon, where he met Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. Influences of this, from Théophile Steinlen, of Jean-Louis Forain or of the Nabis did not escape Villon.
In 1906 he settled in Puteaux and dared himself to cautious Cézannian cubism. In the studio of Puteaux, Villon developed from 1911 as the leader of the Section d'or group, with his brothers, with Albert Gleizes, with František Kupka, with Albert Metzinger, with Francis Picabia and Fernand Léger. Within this Puteaux group, a synthetic cubism heighted. In 1912, all the imported cloths were sold to the American public at the Armory Show.
In 1956, he received the assignment to work out the cartons for 5 glass windows in the Sacré-Coeur chapel of the cathedral in Metz.
Villon named himself Cubist impressionist (Impressionist Cubist). He passed away at the age of 87. Work in public collections (selection)
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