Jacques Villon
JACQUES VILLON
(French, 1875 — 1963)
Femme a la Cruche (After Fernand Leger), 1928
Aquatint in colors, on wove paper
Inscribed lower left
Unnumbered proof
Image size: 20 1/2 by 13 in. (52.07 by 33.02 cm)
Jacques Villon was painter and a printmaker, known as one of the greatest masters of aquatint etchings. Villon was a member of the Puteaux group along with his brothers Marcel Duchamp and Raymond Duchamp-Villon and the cubist artists Francis Picabia and Albert Gleizes. Villon merged a Fauvist sense of color into his geometric and Cubist compositions.