Jacques Villon
French, 1875-1963
Jacques Villon was born Gaston Duchamp in 1875. He was the oldest brother of the artists Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti and the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. Initially a law student, in 1894 he went to Paris to study art. It was there that he met Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and other influential artists in Paris, and changed his name to Jacques Villon, after the poet. Villon made prints of some of the most well-known belle-époque portraits and genre scenes of the early twentieth century. Around 1911, he came under the influence of Picasso and other cubists, and became a leading exponent of the style, exhibiting in the 1913 Armory Show in New York. In 1922, the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune commissioned Villon to produce a series of color aquatints after 38 major nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings. This series included works by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Georges Braque, Raoul Dufy, Amadeo Modigliani, Edouard Manet, Pierre Bonnard, and others. Artists who were alive at the time of the printing collaborated with Villon, and signed the prints. The project took ten years to complete. Several of these prints are valued highly today, and some went on to be reproduced by the Louvre Museum as photo-etchings. Villon's 'cubist' etchings, with their characteristic cross-hatching, are amongst the most renowned prints of the twentieth century. Jacques Villon's long career brought him fame. The diverse nature of his paintings, from end-of-the-century portraits to cubist and abstract styles to graphic works, made him a major figure in twentieth-century art. He was made a Grand Officer of the Légion d'Honneur, and upon his death in 1963, and he was given a state funeral.(Biography provided by Georgetown Frame Shoppe)
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Avant le Bain - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1926
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. From the Countess Anna Laetitia Pecci Blunt Collection. Matting included. Very good condition.
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1960s Modern Jacques Villon
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Paper, Ink
L'Italienne after Modigliani, Aquatint Etching by Jacques Villon
By Jacques Villon
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jacques Villon (after Amadeo Modigliani)
Title: L'Italienne
Year: 1926 - 1927
Medium: Color aquatint etching, signed Modigliani in the plate; signed in pencil by Villon uppe...
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1920s Impressionist Jacques Villon
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Aquatint, Etching
Figure
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed and numbered. Edition of 150 prints.
Image dimensions: 15 x 11 cm
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1970s Post-Impressionist Jacques Villon
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Etching
Labourage à la brunie - 1940s - Jacques Villon - Original Drawing - Modern
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Original drawing.
Image Dimensions : 15.5 x 16 cm
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1940s Modern Jacques Villon
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Paper
H 6.3 in W 18.12 in D 0.08 in
L'Aventure - 1930s - Jacques Villon - Etching - Modern
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Hand Signed. Edition of 108 prints.
Cat. Prouté, 1973, n.250.
Provenance: Prouté 31/3/'73.
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1930s Modern Jacques Villon
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Etching
H 15.75 in W 12.21 in D 0.04 in
Signs of the Zodiac - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1937
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemini is a modern artwork realized by Jacques Villon in 1937.
China ink drawing on paper.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Vintage frame included in this rare artwork...
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1930s Modern Jacques Villon
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Ink, Paper
H 7.09 in W 14.97 in D 0.79 in
Miennes - by Tristan Tzara with original etchings by J. Villon - 1955
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Tristan Tzara, Miennes, Paris, Caractère, 1955
Vol. in 4º, pp. 36, cm 33.5 x 2 x 25, in French
Edition of 111 copies. Including 7 original etching by Jacques Villon.
Wonderful co...
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1950s Dada Jacques Villon
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Etching
H 13.19 in W 9.85 in D 0.79 in
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemi - Drawing by Jacques Villon - 1937
By Jacques Villon
Located in Roma, IT
Signs of the Zodiac, Taurus and Gemini is an original modern artwork realized by Jacques Villon in 1937.
China ink drawing.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Vintage fram...
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1930s Modern Jacques Villon
Materials
Paper, Ink
H 7.09 in W 14.97 in D 0.08 in
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