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Spanish woman with mantilla,( after Matisse) (1925)

Jacques Villon
Woman with Umbrella
1900
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Jacques Villon
The Violinist (Le Violoniste) Supervielle
1899
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Jacques Villon
The Negro
1899
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The Game of Chess (La Partie d'échecs), (1904)

🎨 #JacquesVillon, French Cubist painter, was #BOTD 31 July 1875. #Art #Cubism #Painting

Jacques Villon, urodzony 31 lipca 1875 roku, to postać mniej znana niż jego brat Marcel, ale równie pionierska – zwłaszcza w świecie kubizmu graficznego. (fot. Wikipedia) #JacquesVillon

Jacques Villon is not the real name of the artist. It is Gaston Duchamp (technically: Émile Méry Frédéric Gaston Duchamp) and Suzanne is his sister, the painter Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. They are part of the famous Duchamp family of French artists including sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and, probably most famous of all, painter, sculptor, and author Marcel Duchamp. To distinguish himself from his siblings, Gaston Duchamp adopted the pseudonym of Jacques Villon as a tribute to the French medieval poet François Villon. Jacques chose to take the avant-garde path in France, focusing on figurative arts, creating people and scenes characterized by sharp lines, with almost futuristic movements, which gradually become agile characters, who are graceful and hesitant, yet pleasant. In Villon's abstract Cubist portrait with a touch of Impressionism, rendered only using dark greens and blacks, a woman seemingly in contemplation is depicted. Her hands are clenched covering her mouth and her face is partially obscured and enveloped by sharp, angular brushstrokes suggesting a hood and shadowy foliage. The painter writes over his own initials a dedication that reads "to Suzanne", likely alluding to his sister. Then he continues: "dans mon jardin, in my garden". This gives us context for how the canvas as a whole dances between the face of the young woman and the surrounding vegetation. The dark color scheme and the partially obscured face of the woman generate an atmosphere of quiet intensity. Green dominates every part of the face, while Villon's brush travels through straight lines that then fracture to create a thoughtful countenance. It is an truly striking portrait, which probably dates back to the 1910s.

"Suzanne" by Jacques Villon (French) - Oil on canvas / c. 1910s - Museo Urbano Diffuso (Mantova, Italy) #WomenInArt #art #ArtText #JacquesVillon #GastonDuchamp #Duchamp #womensart #portraitofawoman #MuseoUrbanoDiffuso #MUD #FrenchArtist #Villon #FrenchArt #artwork #ModernArt #ArtoftheDay #Cubism