Birds in Flight
Catalogue
- Year
- 1958
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- composition: 11 15/16 x 16 1/8" (30.4 x 41 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 x 21 15/16" (42.5 x 55.7 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Jacques Villon
Artist
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.
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- Jacques Villon
- Year
- 1958
- Medium
- Lithograph
- Dimensions
- composition: 11 15/16 x 16 1/8" (30.4 x 41 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 x 21 15/16" (42.5 x 55.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1958-M059693
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
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- Status
- verified