Woman with animals (Gleizes)

Woman with animals
French: La dame aux bêtes

Artist	Albert Gleizes
Year	1914
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	196.4 cm × 114.1 cm (77.3 in × 45.9 in)
Location	Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice

Woman with animals, originally referred to as La dame aux bêtes and Portrait de Mme D.V. or Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon, is a painting created late 1913 and completed during the month of February, 1914, by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. The painting was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 1 March – 30 April 1914 (titled Portrait de Mme D.V.). Woman with animals is executed in a personal Cubist style noted by the fusing background and figure, the multiple perspective or successive views at various moments in time of the Mrs. Duchamp-Villon's face and other elements, the freestyle brushstrokes delineating juxtaposing planes. The work was restored in 1940 by Jacques Villon and Robert Delaunay. Formerly in the collection of Marcel Duchamp, the work—along with a 1913 lavis and gouache study of the same subject entitled La femme aux bêtes—has been in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy, since 1940.^[1]^[2]

Description

Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon) is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 196.4 x 114.1 cm (77.3 by 45.9 inches), signed and dated Alb Gleizes, 1914, lower right.

Gleizes formally resolves a domestic interior scene in a lucid and logically self-conscious synthetic style, as in several other paintings of this period (e.g., Femmes cousant, Kröller-Müller Museum, Femmes assises à une fenêtre, private collection, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, Museum of Modern Art, and Woman at the piano, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The limited color harmonies of 1910 through 1912 already questioned in 1913 had now been entirely replaced by an unlimited color palette.^[3]

The seated woman represents the wife of Raymond Duchamp-Villon, the sculptor who took part in the discussions of the Section d'Or group at Puteaux during 1911 and 1912. She is portrayed as "the epitome of bourgeois complacency",^[3] in a large armchair, with her dog and two cats, wedding band, and string of beads. Cubist elements observed here are the fusion of the background and figure, the frontal, centralized pose, the multiple or successive views of the Mrs. Duchamp-Villon's face, the freestyle brushstrokes delineating juxtaposing planes, and the dog’s wagging tail seen at successive moments in time. The planar intersections and lines of force "express notions of the dynamic interpenetration of matter and atmosphere." (Guggenheim)^[3]

References

↑ Anne Varichon, Daniel Robbins, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1, Paris, Somogy éditions d'art - Fondation Albert Gleizes, 1998, ISBN 2-85056-286-6, no. 436, p. 158
↑ Guggenheim, Collection Online, Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon) (La dame aux bêtes [Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon)]
1 2 3 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Lucy Flint)

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Albert Gleizes

Works	Bords de la Marne (1909) L'Arbre (The Tree) (1910) La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) (1910) La Chasse (The Hunt) (1911) Portrait de Jacques Nayral (1911) Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon (Paysage avec personnage) (1911) Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud) (1912) Les Baigneuses (The Bathers) (1912) Le Dépiquage des Moissons (Harvest Threshing) (1912) Passy, Bridges of Paris (1912) Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de Courbevoie (Landschaft bei Paris) (1912) Les Joueurs de football (Football Players) (1912-13) L'Homme au Hamac (Man in a Hammock) (1913) Portrait de l’éditeur Eugène Figuière (1913) Woman with animals (La dame aux bêtes) Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1914) Portrait of an Army Doctor (Portrait d'un médecin militaire) (1914-15) Composition pour Jazz (1915) Brooklyn Bridge (Pont de Brooklyn) (1915) Composition bleu et jaune (Composition jaune) (1921)

Other works (Books)	Du "Cubisme", Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Paris, Figuière, 1912 (published in English and Russian in 1913, a new edition was published in 1947) Du Cubisme et des moyens de le comprendre, Paris, La Cible, Povolozky, 1920 (published in German in 1922). La Mission créatrice de l’Homme dans le domaine plastique, Paris, La Cible, Povolozky, 1921 (published in Polish in 1927). La Peinture et ses lois, ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme, Paris, 1924 (published in English in 2000) Tradition et Cubisme. Vers une conscience plastique. Articles et Conférences 1912–1924, Paris, La Cible, Povolozky, 1927 Peinture et Perspective descriptive, conference at the Carnegie Foundation for l’Union Intellectuelle française, Paris, 22 March 1927. Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1927 Kubismus, Bauhausbücher 13, Munich, Albert Langen Verlag, 1928 (re-edited by Florian Kupferberg Verlag in 1980). Vie et Mort de l’Occident Chrétien, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1930 (published in English in 1947) Vers une Conscience plastique : La Forme et l’Histoire, Paris, Povolozky, 1932 Art et Science, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1933. 2ème édition, Aix-en-Provence, 1961. Conference at Lodz, Poland, 28 April 1932, and Stuttgart, 6 Mai 1932. Homocentrisme ; Le retour de l’Homme chrétien; Le Rythme dans les Arts plastiques, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1937 La Signification Humaine du Cubisme, Lecture by Albert Gleizes at the Petit Palais, Paris, 18 July 1938, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1938 Du Cubisme, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Paris, Compagnie Française des Arts Graphiques, 1947 (re-edition of the 1912 book with slight modifications and a new Preface by Albert Gleizes). Souvenirs, le Cubisme 1908–1914, Lyon, Cahiers Albert Gleizes, L’Association des Amis d’Albert Gleizes, 1957 Puissances du Cubisme, Chambéry, éditions Présence, 1969. Collection of articles published between 1925 and 1946 Art et religion, Art et science, Art et production, Chambéry, éditions Présence, 1970 (published in English in 2000) L'Homme devenu peintre, Paris, Fondation Albert Gleizes and Somogy éditions d'Art, 1998

Shows	Salon d'Automne, Paris Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie de l’Effort Moderne, Paris

Movement	Post-Impressionism Fauvism Cubism Abstract art

Collectors	Léonce Rosenberg Peggy Guggenheim Solomon R. Guggenheim Walter Conrad Arensberg Ursula and Stanley Johnson André Dubois Jacques Zoubaloff Jacques Barzun Madame Henri Benezit Walter Firpo Samuel Josefowit Kennedy-Garber Morton G. Neumann Herbert M. Rothschild Richard S. Zeisler Leonard Hutton Jacques Nayral

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