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Sans titre (Un poème dans chaque livre Paul Eluard) Ref BDNW3059,
1955
by Jacques Villon
Print : eau-forte 41 x 28 cm 16.1 x 11 inch
$1,660
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Numbered and limited to 6 copies
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Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
Technique and support : Etching on paper
Dimensions : 41 x 28 cm (image 15 x 14 cm)
Condition : in perfect condition, two small almost invisible holes of barely 0.1 mm, probably linked to the printing matrix of the print but which will be completely invisible to the frame. See picture 5
Provenance : Genevieve and Jean Paul Kahn collection
Expert comments : From a very young age, Jacques Duchamp alias Jacques Villon has been making prints, his favorite medium. Successively influenced by all the great movements of modern art (Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, etc.), the artist retains his independence of mind and his own style. In 1906 he moved to rue Lemaître in Puteaux with his brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Frantisek Kupka. This workshop will become a meeting point for part of the Parisian avant-garde with, among others, Marcel Duchamp (his brother), Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay. They will form the “group of Puteaux” or “golden section”.
In 1913, he participated in the Armory Show in New York where his brother Marcel Duchamp caused a famous scandal by presenting his "Nu descending the stairs", then after the war, he devoted himself to abstraction. It was only from the 1940s that his work was recognized when he had already produced a lot. These years also mark the beginning of his collaboration with the greatest contemporary writers including Paul Eluard but also André Frénaud, Robert Ganzo, Tristan Tzara and Henri Pichette.
His contribution to the tribute book on Paul Eluard "a poem in each book" is one of the most surprising and interesting. Indeed, the artist interprets in his own way the poem "I believed the possible rest" and represents the weariness, the loneliness, the old age, the sufferings of the man who knows no rest and leads him to the image of the Undoubtedly ruined at death leaving only the skeleton. This skeleton bends "the back" and walks "head down" like a man under the weight of a labor he undergoes with the regret of not having taken his destiny in hand, of not having dared to leave the well-marked life offered by the company. He is like this cow taken from the surrealist bestiary, which, manipulated by man, only obeys and submits.
Villon's work, like Paul Eluard's poem, is incredibly expressive and allows, as the surrealists like to do, to show the life of the mind. The only glimmers of hope are the light evoked in the poem and the soft colors of the artist. Why did Villon choose this poem? Perhaps it is in connection with his own career as an artist and this belated recognition from which he benefited? I also appreciate this declaration of the artist "what is difficult in painting, it is the first 70 years..."
Particularities of the work: Original print signed by hand by the artist in pencil at the bottom right and numbered I/VI. This work is an additional wide-margined edition of illustration 13 of the tribute book to Eluard "a poem in each book" published in 1956 in 120 copies. In the book, illustration 13 is positioned next to Paul Eluard's poem "I believed rest was possible" from "The Fertile Eyes" (1936). The work offered here comes from the album called "Album A", Reprinted from the book in 20 copies. Each album contains, like the book, 16 prints (including this work by Jacques Villon) but they were printed with wide margins and unlike the prints in the book, all signed or monogrammed by the artists. The album we have was the property of the publisher Louis BRODER. It stands out from the others because it is enriched in addition to the 16 large-margined illustrations with many other prints collected by the publisher throughout his collaboration with the artists on this book.
Explanatory photo 1: Comparison between Album A offprint of "a poem in each book" printed in 20 copies and the book "a poem in each book" printed in 120 copies.
Explanatory photo 2: Album A offprint of 20 copies having belonged to the publisher Louis Broder contained in a gray canvas box with a label stuck on the back and the first cover.
Explanatory photo 3: Proof of printing of Album A which indicates the maximum number of copies of prints contained in total in the 20 albums as well as the names of the artists. It is annotated in red pencil "Editor's copy B" because it belonged to Louis Broder.
Explanatory photo 4: Original print signed and printed with wide margins by Pablo Picasso, contained in album A
Explanatory photo 5: Original print signed and printed with large margins by Max Ernst, contained in album A
Explanatory photo 6: Book "a poem in each book" printed in 120 copies, containing the 16 prints unsigned by the artists (signatures on the proof of printing of the book)
Explanatory photo 7: Print by Pablo Picasso on double page, unsigned contained in the book "a poem in each book"
Explanatory photo 8: Print by Max Ernst unsigned contained in the book "a poem in each book"
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Dimensions : 41 x 28 cm (image 15 x 14 cm)
Condition : in perfect condition, two small almost invisible holes of barely 0.1 mm, probably linked to the printing matrix of the print but which will be completely invisible to the frame. See picture 5
Provenance : Genevieve and Jean Paul Kahn collection
Expert comments : From a very young age, Jacques Duchamp alias Jacques Villon has been making prints, his favorite medium. Successively influenced by all the great movements of modern art (Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, etc.), the artist retains his independence of mind and his own style. In 1906 he moved to rue Lemaître in Puteaux with his brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Frantisek Kupka. This workshop will become a meeting point for part of the Parisian avant-garde with, among others, Marcel Duchamp (his brother), Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay. They will form the “group of Puteaux” or “golden section”.
In 1913, he participated in the Armory Show in New York where his brother Marcel Duchamp caused a famous scandal by presenting his "Nu descending the stairs", then after the war, he devoted himself to abstraction. It was only from the 1940s that his work was recognized when he had already produced a lot. These years also mark the beginning of his collaboration with the greatest contemporary writers including Paul Eluard but also André Frénaud, Robert Ganzo, Tristan Tzara and Henri Pichette.
His contribution to the tribute book on Paul Eluard "a poem in each book" is one of the most surprising and interesting. Indeed, the artist interprets in his own way the poem "I believed the possible rest" and represents the weariness, the loneliness, the old age, the sufferings of the man who knows no rest and leads him to the image of the Undoubtedly ruined at death leaving only the skeleton. This skeleton bends "the back" and walks "head down" like a man under the weight of a labor he undergoes with the regret of not having taken his destiny in hand, of not having dared to leave the well-marked life offered by the company. He is like this cow taken from the surrealist bestiary, which, manipulated by man, only obeys and submits.
Villon's work, like Paul Eluard's poem, is incredibly expressive and allows, as the surrealists like to do, to show the life of the mind. The only glimmers of hope are the light evoked in the poem and the soft colors of the artist. Why did Villon choose this poem? Perhaps it is in connection with his own career as an artist and this belated recognition from which he benefited? I also appreciate this declaration of the artist "what is difficult in painting, it is the first 70 years..."
Particularities of the work: Original print signed by hand by the artist in pencil at the bottom right and numbered I/VI. This work is an additional wide-margined edition of illustration 13 of the tribute book to Eluard "a poem in each book" published in 1956 in 120 copies. In the book, illustration 13 is positioned next to Paul Eluard's poem "I believed rest was possible" from "The Fertile Eyes" (1936). The work offered here comes from the album called "Album A", Reprinted from the book in 20 copies. Each album contains, like the book, 16 prints (including this work by Jacques Villon) but they were printed with wide margins and unlike the prints in the book, all signed or monogrammed by the artists. The album we have was the property of the publisher Louis BRODER. It stands out from the others because it is enriched in addition to the 16 large-margined illustrations with many other prints collected by the publisher throughout his collaboration with the artists on this book.
Explanatory photo 1: Comparison between Album A offprint of "a poem in each book" printed in 20 copies and the book "a poem in each book" printed in 120 copies.
Explanatory photo 2: Album A offprint of 20 copies having belonged to the publisher Louis Broder contained in a gray canvas box with a label stuck on the back and the first cover.
Explanatory photo 3: Proof of printing of Album A which indicates the maximum number of copies of prints contained in total in the 20 albums as well as the names of the artists. It is annotated in red pencil "Editor's copy B" because it belonged to Louis Broder.
Explanatory photo 4: Original print signed and printed with wide margins by Pablo Picasso, contained in album A
Explanatory photo 5: Original print signed and printed with large margins by Max Ernst, contained in album A
Explanatory photo 6: Book "a poem in each book" printed in 120 copies, containing the 16 prints unsigned by the artists (signatures on the proof of printing of the book)
Explanatory photo 7: Print by Pablo Picasso on double page, unsigned contained in the book "a poem in each book"
Explanatory photo 8: Print by Max Ernst unsigned contained in the book "a poem in each book"
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Jacques Villon, his real name Gaston Emile Duchamp, was born in 1875 in France and died in 1963.
He came from a bourgeois family and was attracted by art, he is the elder brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor, Suzanne Duchamp, painter and of the famous painter, sculptor and author Marcel Duchamp. His artist name is marked by Francois Villon, poet of the Middle Ages, and he paid him tribute in this manner. He began engraving at the age of 16 with the help of his grandfather, an engraver himself.
In 1894, he settled down with his brother Raymond in the Montmartre quarter and continued his law studies at the University of Paris. Still attracted by art, he attended classes at Beaux Arts Paris simultaneously, as his father forced him to continue his education in law. He eventually managed to make his father change his mind and dedicated himself to art by studying at the Cormon Studio.
His career took off as a caricaturist and illustrator for the Parisian press and for making posters. Montmartre was restless those days and Jacques Villon didn't miss a thing, without actually being part of a particular movement. With Degas and Toulouse Lautrec in mind, he began painting at once.
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He came from a bourgeois family and was attracted by art, he is the elder brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor, Suzanne Duchamp, painter and of the famous painter, sculptor and author Marcel Duchamp. His artist name is marked by Francois Villon, poet of the Middle Ages, and he paid him tribute in this manner. He began engraving at the age of 16 with the help of his grandfather, an engraver himself.
In 1894, he settled down with his brother Raymond in the Montmartre quarter and continued his law studies at the University of Paris. Still attracted by art, he attended classes at Beaux Arts Paris simultaneously, as his father forced him to continue his education in law. He eventually managed to make his father change his mind and dedicated himself to art by studying at the Cormon Studio.
His career took off as a caricaturist and illustrator for the Parisian press and for making posters. Montmartre was restless those days and Jacques Villon didn't miss a thing, without actually being part of a particular movement. With Degas and Toulouse Lautrec in mind, he began painting at once.
His work was particularly impressive during the Cubist period and the artist stood out with his theoretical research on this subject. Jacques Villon also participated in the fauvism and the abstract impressionism impetus. Picasso and Braque had already launched foundations of cubism when Jacques Villon came along. He offered a different approach, by banking more on dynamism and colors.
Jacques Villon became increasingly famous in U.S.A before Europe and his career made a major turn due to this participation at the Armony Art Show in New York in 1913. His success became known across the Atlantic, due to his work which was presented at the Musée d’art Moderne in Paris.
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