Seznam děl umělce Villon Jacques

(1875-1963) Villon´s first one-man show in America was held at the Société Anonyme, New York, in 1921. In 1932, he joined the Abstraction-Création group and exhibited with them. By that time he was better known in America than in Europe. An important exhibition of Villon’s work was held in Paris in 1944 at the Galerie Louis Carré, from that time his exclusive representative. Villon received honors at a number of international exhibitions, including First Prize, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1950, and Grand Prize for Painting, Venice Biennale, 1956. He designed stained-glass windows for the cathedral at Metz in 1955. His works are represented in major museum collections throughout the world.

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Jacques Villon was born Emile Méry Frédéric Gaston Duchamp (his real name), in 1875 in Damville (department of The Eure). Aged 16, he made his first prints (engravings) in the studio of his grandfather, the Rouen painter and engraver Emile Nicolle. In 1894, Villon enrolled at the Rouen Beaux-Arts and his first drawings were published in the local art-review “Rouen Artiste”. A year later, Jacques Villon moved to Paris and went to the Atelier Cormon, where memories of Gauguin, Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec were still fresh. At about this time, Villon had himself called Jack (later changed to Jacques) Villon (referring to the 15th century poet). In 1897, his drawings illustrated several satirical weeklies : “L’Assiette au Beurre”, “Le Rire”, “Le Chat Noir”, and above all “Le Courrier Français”. Villon met Renoir, Steinlen and Francis Jourdain, who taught him colour aquatint technique ; Edmond Sagot became his publisher. Between 1901 and 1905, his work was acknowledged by the artist milieu : in 1901, he showed two prints (etchings) at The Société des Beaux Arts ; in 1902, he entirely illustrated an issue of “L’Assiette au Beurre” ; in 1903, he showed 3 engravings at the Salon d’Automne. In 1904, Villon engraved Sagot’s visiting card and Delâtre’s greeting card ; in 1905, the Legrip Gallery in Rouen held his first one-man show. In 1910, Jules Roques, manager of the “Courrier Français” died and Jacques Villon stopped working for the press in order to concentrate on his painting and print. In the 1910s Villon was part of the Puteaux group, also called “Golden Mean” group, which included Gleizes, Marcel Duchamp (Jacques’brother), Metzinger, Picabia, Léger, La Fresnaye, Laurencin. In 1912, Villon resigned from the committee of the Salon d’Automne to protest against the president’s disapproval of cubism. He showed in New-York in 1913 ; at the outbreak of the war he was called up, taking part in military operations. After the war, Villon resumed his print, almost engraving, maintaining a large output until 1922. Amongst the most well-known are the 1919 “Renée de face” ; the 1920 etching “Baudelaire au socle” and “La table d’échecs” (The chess table) etc.
In the thirties, several exhibitions of his work were held in France and in the U.S. (where he was better known). When the German invasion drew near, Villon moved to the Eure, and then to the Tarn, where he painted landscapes. In 1942, the Galerie de France showed his work, and he met Louis Carré who became his dealer and organized shows throughout the world. Villon’s first big show was held in 1944 at the Louis Carré gallery, comprising 39 paintings. Jacques Villon has at last attained true recognition, and he wittily remarked : “The difficult thing in painting is the first seventy years”. Villon was launched as an artist, as was confirmed by the numerous exhibitions and awards which followed until his death in 1963. In: http://www.michelfillion.com/oeuvres_eng.php?artiste=VILLON * * * * * Began relationship with Galerie Louis Carré & Cie Paris, France
Died on June 9th, 87 years old Puteaux Studio

Selected Exhibitions
1997 Six Decades of Paintings, Louis Stern Fine Arts West Hollywood, CA
1991 Galerie Carré & Cie Paris, France
1990 Paris 1930, Arte Abstracto/Arte Concreto, , Centre Julio Gonzalez Valence
1988 Musée de Jacobins Morlaix, France
1987 Les Trois Duchamp, Galerie Dina Vierny Paris, France
1987 Paris 1937, L'Art Indépendant, , Musée d'Art Modern de la Ville Paris, France
1986 The Brothers Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-, Arnold Herstand & Co. New York, NY
1985 Prints 1891-1956, Stadia Graphics Paddington
1983 Grand Palais 1903-1983, Salon d' Automne, Paris, France
1981 - 1982 The Cubist Print, , National Gallery of Art Washington
1971 The Cubist Epoch, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
1963 20th C. Master Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
1945 - Marcel Duchamp, , Yale University Connecticut
In: http://www.artnet.com/artist/627903/jacques-villon.html

Villon, Jacques (1875-1963), French painter and printmaker, and brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Villon was born Gaston Emile Duchamp in 1875. In 1894, after completing secondary schooling in his native Normandy, he settled in Paris with his brother Raymond, who began by studying medicine but who soon decided to become a sculptor. Gaston, who had adopted the pseudonym of Jacques Villon as a tribute to the French medieval poet François Villon, curtailed his studies in the Faculty of Law and went to Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, where Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec had studied. He worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for various magazines before settling in 1906 in Puteaux, far from the fashionable Montparnasse and Montmartre districts, in order to devote more of his time to painting. This isolation, together with his unassuming nature, ensured that Villon's work remained virtually unrecognized until its discovery and promotion by the gallery-owner Louis Carré in the late 1940s, by which time he had produced 700 to 800 canvases and a considerable number of prints.
His work is not only important in itself, but also for its demonstration of the logical connection between the various schools of French painting at the time: it owes much to Neo-Impressionism for its mathematical concern, and to Cubism for purely geometric forms, a habit of interpreting freely the surrounding world, and a pattern of strict grouping on the canvas. Villon's skill in combining these elements, underpinned by his use of pure colour, produced pictures at once refined and stimulating. His search for a better understanding of the relationship between space and rhythm, line and colour, is best expressed in his picture L'espace (1932).
Villon was awarded the Carnegie Prize in 1950, and the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale in 1956. He was nominated Commandeur de Légion d'honneur. Villon died in his Puteaux studio, his workplace for almost 60 years.
In: MS Encarta

Villon’s first one-man show in America was held at the Société Anonyme, New York, in 1921. In 1932, he joined the Abstraction-Création group and exhibited with them. By that time he was better known in America than in Europe. An important exhibition of Villon’s work was held in Paris in 1944 at the Galerie Louis Carré, from that time his exclusive representative. Villon received honors at a number of international exhibitions, including First Prize, Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1950, and Grand Prize for Painting, Venice Biennale, 1956. He designed stained-glass windows for the cathedral at Metz in 1955. His works are represented in major museum collections throughout the world.
Jacques Villon was born in 1875. His birth name was Gaston Duchamp, oldest brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti and the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
Jacques Villon began studying as a law student but in 1894 went to Paris to study art. He changed his name to Jacques Villon (after the poet). He met Toulouse-Lautrec and many other influential artists working in Paris at the time. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1904 and painted and made prints of some of the finest belle-époque portraits and genre scenes of the early 20th century. Around 1911 he came under the influence of Picasso and other cubists and became a leading exponent of the style, exhibiting in the New York Armoury Show in 1913. In 1922, in straightened circumstances, he was commissioned by the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune to produce a series of colour aquatints after 38 major 19th and 20th century paintings by artists including the Douanier Rousseau, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Cezanne, Georges Braque, Dufy, Modigliani, Edouard Manet, Pierre Bonnard and many others, and those artists who were still alive collaborated and signed the prints which were meant to provide the public with access to works which were not otherwise available (colour photography was not an option to reproduce art in those days). The project took 10 years to fulfill. Many of these prints are highly prized today and some went on to be widely reproduced by the Louvre Museum as photo-etchings. His 'cubist' style etchings, with their characteristic cross-hatching (later to be emulated by David Hockney and others) are amongst the most important prints of the 20th century.
Jacques Villon's long career brought him fame and he was a major figure in 20th century art. The diverse nature of his paintings, from fin-de-siecle portraits to cubist and abstract styles and of his graphic work - from belle epoque evocations of the 'beau monde' to his distinctive hatchwork in his cubist etchings - is truly amazing. He was made a Grand Officier de la Légion d'Honneur, its highest honour and when he died at the age of 88 in 1963 and he was given a state funeral.
In: http://www.georgetownframeshoppe.com/jacques_villon_biography.html

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