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Jacques Villon 1875-1963, French painter, brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon . Villon became an exponent of cubism in 1911 and is best known for his refinement of the cubist style. His works are noted for their free use of color and carefully structured composition (e.g., Portrait of the Artist's Father, 1924; Guggenheim Mus.).

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Villon, Jacques (1875–1963). French painter and graphic artist, the elder brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon. His original name was Gaston Duchamp, but he changed it in 1895 because of his admiration for the 15th-century poet François Villon. In 1894 he began studying law in Paris, but he soon abandoned it for art, initially earning his living mainly as a newspaper illustrator. In 1911 he began experimenting with Cubism, and the following year he was one of the founders of the Section d'Or group. After the First World War he began painting geometrical abstracts, but in the 1920s he earned his living mainly as a printmaker (he was an expert etcher). In 1921 he had a one-man exhibition at the Société Anonyme, New York, and for most of the interwar period he was probably better known in the USA than in Europe. During this time he alternated between abstraction and a highly schematized type of figuration. After the Second World War he enjoyed substantially greater recognition than in the earlier part of his career, winning the Grand Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale in 1958, when he was in his eighties.

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Villon, Jacques (b Damville, Normandy, 31 July 1875; d Puteaux, nr. Paris, 9 June 1963). French painter and graphic artist, the elder brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon. His original name was Gaston Duchamp, but he changed it in 1895 because of his admiration for the 15th-century poet François Villon. In 1894 he began studying law in Paris, but he soon abandoned it for art, initially earning his living mainly as a newspaper illustrator. In 1911 he began experimenting with Cubism, and the following year he was one of the founders of the Section d'Or group. After the First World War (during which he served in the army) he began painting geometrical abstracts (Colour Perspective, 1921, Guggenheim Mus., New York), but in the 1920s he earned his living mainly as a printmaker (he was an expert etcher). In 1921 he had a one-man exhibition at the Société Anonyme, New York, and for most of the inter-war period he was probably better known in the USA than in Europe. During this time he alternated between abstraction and a highly schematized type of figuration (Portrait of the Artist's Father, 1924, Guggenheim Mus.). After the Second World War he enjoyed substantially greater recognition than in the earlier part of his career, winning the Grand Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale in 1958, when he was in his eighties.

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Apocalyptic Horse; Raymond Duchamp-Villon's Powerful Steed, at Hirshhorn
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Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 7/4/1997; 700+ words ; Vintage Villon: A Cubist pioneer from a family of successful...Hollywood. An opening reception for ``Jacques Villon: Six Decades of Painting'' at 6 p...Galerie Louis Carre & Cie, Paris. Villon's artistically minded family includes...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/14/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...1703-1770), William Blake (1757-1827) and Jacques Villon (1875-1963). Robison cheerfully admits that the...1805). Blake is Blake, irascible and immortal. "Jacques Villon" is the name assumed by Gaston Duchamp to keep himself...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/11/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...year, 32 Parisian cubists, led by Jacques Villon, the mathematically minded brother...cathedrals, and Leonardo and Seurat. Villon and his colleagues, Juan Gris...Marcoussis, Metzinger and especially Villon, their favorite - are also here...
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Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 12/30/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...held within an oval framework. Jacques Villon's portrait, "Monsieur D. Lisant...Forming a counterpoint to the Villon print is the German artist Louis...himself etching. Similar to the Villon piece in subject, Corinth's etching...
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Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/30/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...paintings - by Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Leger - bronze sculptures by Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Julio Gonzalez and an etching of Baudelaire by Jacques Villon. They are featured, through Jan. 12, with bequests from a Wayzata couple, Charles...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 12/22/2002; 700+ words ; ...was the son of a French provincial notary, and brother of two important modernist artists - Jacques Villon, a painter and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, an early modern sculptor. Duchamp's contribution to 20th-century art history was to turn...
Money is no object: by deciding early on that he would not depend for a living on sales of his work, Marcel Duchamp took a crucial step toward freeing his art from material constraints and the vicissitudes of commerce. (Duchampiana II).(Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...determined that the painting violated their doctrinaire view of Cubism, so they asked Duchamp's brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, if they would intercede on the committee's behalf and arrange for the picture to be withdrawn...
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Magazine article from: Antiques & Collecting Magazine; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...and a copy of Volume II of "Indian Tribes of North America" reached $16,000. Jacques Villon poster, $67,200, Swann Auc. An 1899 poster by Jacques VUlon, promoting the Parisian nightclub Le Grillon, sold for $67,200 at a sale...

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