Jacques Villon

Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge (Municipal Guard at the Moulin Rouge)

Jacques Villon's original etching, "Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge", (Municipal Guard at the Moulin Rouge) was published in Paris in 1910. This impression is the 'Third and Final State'. For this the final state, Jacques Villon actually cut the plate along the right margin, thus concentrating more upon the foreground figure of the guard and less upon background details. "Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge" stands as a superb, early example of the graphic art created by the French artist, Jacque Villon.

Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge Original Etching by Jacques Villon.

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Title:	Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge (Municipal Guard at the Moulin Rouge)
Artist:	Villon, Jacques (Damville, 1875 - 1963)
Date:	1910
Medium:	Original Etching
Note:	Jacques Villon: Christened Gaston Duchamp, Jacques Villon came from an exceptionally talented family. His brother, Marcel Duchamp, and his sister, Suzanne Duchamp, were both leading modern painters, while another brother, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, made his mark as a sculptor. Jacques Villon first studied art in Rouen (1895) before finishing his education in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts.
	Early in his career, Jacques Villon established himself as a leading neo-Impressionist and worked with such fine artists as Steinlen and Willette. Like most Art Nouveau pieces from the turn of the century, Villon's etchings and lithographs explored stylistic concerns that were largely set in motion by Toulouse-Lautrec. Even in such early work, however, Jacques Villon was reaching out to a new artistic vocabulary. Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge is a perfect case in point. This wonderful image of a rigid guard gazing at the entertainment in the background is thematically very similar to the work of Toulouse-Lautrec. Yet a more careful examination of the etching's compositional elements (particularly in the figure of the guard) shows a bold and deliberate squaring off of form. This is the beginnings of Cubism.
	By 1912 Jacques Villon, along with Gleizes and Metzinger, had emerged as an early and important Cubist artist. His reputation reached international levels shortly after the end of World War One as he continued to assimilate modernist ideas into his art. During the following years Jacques Villon continued in the front rank of modern art for his talented abilities to synthesize the colors of Fauvism with the structures of Cubism and for producing abstract and lyrical decompositions of shapes and surfaces.
Raisonne:	C. Ginestet & C. Pouillon, Jacques Villon: Les Estampes et Les Illustrations, Paris, 1979. Catalogue # 249. Third and Final State. For this the final state, Jacques Villon actually cut the plate along the right margin, thus concentrating more upon the foreground figure of the guard and less upon background details.
Size:	8 3/4 X 3 5/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon thick, wove paper and with full margins as published in Paris. A fine, strong impression and in excellent condition throughout. Garde Municipale au Moulin Rouge (Municipal Guard at the Moulin Rouge)stands as a superb, early example of the famous art of Jacque Villon.
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