Color perspective (vertical) Artist: Jacques Villon (French, 1875–1963)

1922

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

36 5/16 × 28 13/16 in. (92.2 × 73.2 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.744

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Collection of the Societe Anonyme, New York (bought from the artist in Paris in 1922).
Bibliography
  • Cubism and Australian Art, exh. cat. (Melbourne, Australia: Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2009), 133, ill
  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 697, no. 736, ill
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 139
  • George Heard Hamilton, "Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Villon," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 13 (March 1945), 5
  • George Heard Hamilton, "The Exhibition of the Collection of the Societe Anonyme: The Museum of Modern Art, 1920," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 10, no. 3 (December 1941), 5
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Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Subject

shapes

Inscriptions

signed l.r. "J.V."

Signed

Villon, Jacques 1875-1963

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