JACQUES VILLON (Damville, France, 1875- Puteaux,... Lot 40

JACQUES VILLON (Damville, France, 1875- Puteaux, France, 1963). "En Colère, 1952. Original drawing for lithograph on paper. Published in 1959 by Edition d'Art du Lion. Signed and dated in the lower right corner. Size: 45,5 x 33 cm; 75 x 67 cm (frame). Jacques Villon was a French cubist painter actually called Gaston Émile Duchamp. Under the pseudonym "Jacques Villon", he began to produce illustrations in humorous Parisian newspapers, in which he satirised the subject of religion or the army, as well as other fundamental aspects of conventional 19th century morality. Villon exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1911 and at the first exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York in 1917. He also produced works for the Societé Anonyme exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum in 1926, which brought together works by Picabia and Marcel Duchamp (his brother) among others. He exhibited his work in various galleries in Europe and the United States, including the Brummer Gallery in New York and the Galerie Louis Carré in Paris and New York.