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This artwork, Portrait of an Actor (Félix Barré) by Jacques Villon, is currently for sale at R. S. Johnson Fine Art.
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TITLE:
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Portrait of an Actor (Félix Barré)
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WORK DATE:
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1913
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CATEGORY:
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Prints
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MATERIALS:
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Drypoint
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EDITION/SET OF:
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3/32
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MARKINGS:
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Signed, dated 1913 and numbered 3/32
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SIZE:
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h: 15.8 x w: 12.4 in / h: 40.1 x w: 31.5 cm
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STYLE:
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Cubism
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PRICE*:
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Contact Gallery for Price
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DESCRIPTION:
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Notes:
1. A superb impression of this major work which many regard as Villon’s tour de force among the artist’s Golden Section period drypoints. Shoemaker (Innes Shoemaker, Jacques Villon and His Cubist Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001: p. 28) refers to the dramatic effect of the drypoint in this work “as a result of the more aggressive crossing of planes, the stark contrasts of black and white, and the energetic linear hatchings that build the construction of planes...Villon allowed the compositional structure of planes and volumes to dominate the naturalistic representation of the subject, producing a work that is far more powerful than his Cubist drypoints to date”.
2. The “actor” here is Félix Barré, a neighbor of Villon on the rue Lemaître in Puteaux. The Barrés and the Villons vacationed together on the Normandy coast. Villon had previously depicted Barré and his wife, nicknamed La Bousine, together with Villon’s wife Gaby in a color aquatint of 1904: Sous la tente, sur la plage (Blonville), (Ginestet & Pouillon E. 137).
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PROVENANCE:
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Collection of Jacqueline and Bernard Gheerbrant, founders of the Librairie La Hune at St. Germain-des-Près in Paris.
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LITERATURE:
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Reference:
Auberty & Pérussaux no. 199
Ginestet & Pouillon E. 283
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