The Creation of the World

Jacques VillonWW-1945-138588

1945·Pen and black ink and white and gray gouache, with touches of graphite on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on white wove paper, laid down on cream board·Primary support: 41.5 × 30.5 cm (16 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 42 × 31 cm (16 9/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Tertiary support: 48.4 × 36.4 cm (19 1/16 × 14 3/8 in.)

Catalogue

Year: 1945
Medium: Pen and black ink and white and gray gouache, with touches of graphite on cream wove tracing paper, laid down on white wove paper, laid down on cream board
Dimensions: Primary support: 41.5 × 30.5 cm (16 3/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 42 × 31 cm (16 9/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Tertiary support: 48.4 × 36.4 cm (19 1/16 × 14 3/8 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Jacques Villon

Artist

Jacques Villon

Printmaking

French painter and printmaker Jacques Villon advanced the evolution of Cubism in Paris in the early 20th century. Unlike the reduced palette of the earliest iteration of Cubism, many of Villon’s paintings explore truncated forms and planar shifts through relatively saturated colors, rich chromatic contrasts and figural or landscape compositions. Alongside his brother Raymond Duchamp, he founded the Puteaux Group, Cubist group which included Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay,and Francis Picabia. Villon contributed to the development of the 1912 Salon de la Section d’Or, a critical exhibition for the rise of Cubism and Orphism.

Puteaux, France

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