Yvonne Duchamp, Full-Face
Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp), French, 1875 - 1963
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1913Medium:
DrypointDimensions:
Plate: 21 3/4 x 16 5/16 inches (55.2 x 41.4 cm) Sheet: 25 3/8 x 19 5/8 inches (64.5 x 49.8 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
2001-9-13Credit Line:
125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation, 2001
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1913Medium:
DrypointDimensions:
Plate: 21 3/4 x 16 5/16 inches (55.2 x 41.4 cm) Sheet: 25 3/8 x 19 5/8 inches (64.5 x 49.8 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:2001-9-13Credit Line:
125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of The Judith Rothschild Foundation, 2001
Label:
Of the three monumental drypoint portraits of his sister Yvonne, this is the one in which Villon used the most radical application of his system of constructing space and volumes of pyramidal shapes. This system was based on Villon's reading of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting. Here, his method of dividing the composition into geometric segments of various shapes allows the almost seamless merging of the figure and the background. Although the sitter's head and body may still clearly be discerned in the patchwork of shapes, they may equally be read as part and parcel of their surroundings.
Of the three monumental drypoint portraits of his sister Yvonne, this is the one in which Villon used the most radical application of his system of constructing space and volumes of pyramidal shapes. This system was based on Villon's reading of Leonardo da Vinci's Treatise on Painting. Here, his method of dividing the composition into geometric segments of various shapes allows the almost seamless merging of the figure and the background. Although the sitter's head and body may still clearly be discerned in the patchwork of shapes, they may equally be read as part and parcel of their surroundings.
