Jacques VILLON (1875-1963) - Lot 43

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Jacques VILLON (1875-1963) - Lot 43
Jacques VILLON (1875-1963) The Little Beggar Girl, 1936 Oil on canvas Signed upper left, titled on back. 42 x 34cm Copy of the notice of inclusion in the Catalogue Raisonné of Mr. Patrick Bongers, Editions Louis Carré, dated January 17, 1986. Our painting joins 20 years later Villon's experiments with analytical and synthetic cubism, tried out when he belonged to the Groupe de Puteaux: simplified treatment of volumes reduced to planes, language of geometric shapes that reassemble constructively. The use of color-light and constructive planes do not limit Villon's painting to a purely abstract exercise: here, the title of the painting, the sadness of the face and the power of the right arm undergoing an irresistible attraction introduce an intense emotional charge that we find, for example, in "mon frère Marcel" or in some of his self-portraits.
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