In Memoriam Artist: Jacques Villon (French, 1875–1963)

1919

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on burlap

Dimensions

51 1/16 × 32 1/16 in. (129.7 × 81.5 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.741

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Paintings

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Collection of the Societe Anonyme, New York (bought from the artist in Paris in 1920).
Bibliography
  • Pamela Franks, Jessica Sack, and John Walsh, "Looking to Learn, Learning to Teach," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2013), 46, ill
  • Richard Meyer, "'Big, Middle-Class Modernism'," October 131 (Winter 2010), 74–77
  • Ruth L. Bohan et al., The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, ed. Jennifer Gross, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 106, fig. 11
  • 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), 689, no. 725, ill
  • Francoise Forster-Hahn, French and School of Paris Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968), 27–28, fig. 32
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 138-39, ill
  • George Heard Hamilton, "Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Villon," Bulletin of the Associates in Fine Arts at Yale University 13 (March 1945), 6, ill
  • 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
  • Katherine S. Dreier, Western Art and the New Era: an Introduction to Modern Art (New York: Brentano's, 1923), 83, fig. 38
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
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Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre)

Signed

Signed l.l. "Jacques Villon"

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