Young Girl
Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp), French, 1875 - 1963
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1912Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
57 9/16 × 45 inches (146.2 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 60 × 47 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (152.4 × 120 × 4.4 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
European Painting
1950-134-190Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1912Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
57 9/16 × 45 inches (146.2 × 114.3 cm) Framed: 60 × 47 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (152.4 × 120 × 4.4 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 181, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor
Accession Number:1950-134-190Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Label:
Gaston Duchamp, the elder brother of Marcel Duchamp, marked his decision to become an artist by changing his name to Jacques Villon after the medieval French poet François Villon. After devoting his early career to producing prints and caricatures for newspapers and illustrated journals, Villon discovered Cubism around 1910 and spent the rest of his life exploring its spatial complexities. Young Girl is a portrait of the artist's twenty-three-year-old sister Yvonne, seated in an armchair. The composition is constructed out of small, volumetric pyramids whose rich colors illuminate the canvas with a crystalline light, a technique that Villon evolved from a description in Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting.
Gaston Duchamp, the elder brother of Marcel Duchamp, marked his decision to become an artist by changing his name to Jacques Villon after the medieval French poet François Villon. After devoting his early career to producing prints and caricatures for newspapers and illustrated journals, Villon discovered Cubism around 1910 and spent the rest of his life exploring its spatial complexities. Young Girl is a portrait of the artist's twenty-three-year-old sister Yvonne, seated in an armchair. The composition is constructed out of small, volumetric pyramids whose rich colors illuminate the canvas with a crystalline light, a technique that Villon evolved from a description in Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting.
Explore the Collections
* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit.