Jacques Villon-Cubist Work on Paper

Jacques Villon is one of the 20th Century's most significant artists. Stanley Hayter and others have called Villon the father of modern print-making. Jacques Villon actually named Gaston Duchamp was probably the most significant peintre-graveur of the twentieth century in France. This book explores a segment of his painting and print-making skills one commonly known as Cubism. Villon and his brothers were a part of a group of infuential intellectual painters poets and essayists who met regularly in villon's studio. His work is intimately connected with ideas that originated there. The author in 2011 completed a definitive catalog of the entire collection of villon's work gathered over a forty year period--350 graphic and painting works on paper. The present study focuses specifically on 53 Cubist-related images from that collection and discusses the influence of the Section d'Or on the artist's working method. The work is extensively referenced.