" Jeune Femme"

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(1941-42)

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"Jeune Femme" (Young Woman), 1941-42, etching, second state (of 2), signed and numbered 35/40 in pencil by the artist Jacques Villon (1875-1963), a very good  impression with rich burr and strong plate tone, full margins, 11" x 8 ", (Ginestet/Pouillon 455).

Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp), brother of Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, the sculptor, was born in Damville in 1875.  He was at first influenced by Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, but then caught up in the Fauvism, Cubism and Abstraction.

Jacques Villon established a personal, highly abstract and poetic approach to Cubism and Abstraction, maintaining this approach and elegance his entire life.  Triangular shapes and precisely ruled contours predominate, as in this portrait head, which is comprised of geometric facets.  He constructed his forms according to the principle of a "pyramidal vision" formulated by Leonardo:  an object and its various parts come toward us in pyramids, whose apex is in our eye and whose base is in the object.

This Villon is in a 22 1/4" x  27 1/2" contemporary style double beveled silver applied over a red/brown ground frame that has been brush finished in gray and warm black and brown.   The wood fillet is in silver applied over a red/brown ground echoing the frame. The "Oyster" colored silk outer and "Mink" colored silk inner mats are acid and lignin free and are protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO …$2,200.00