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Presence

Title	Presence
Artist	ジャック・ヴィヨン　Jacques VILLON
Date	1920
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	92.0×65.0
Classification	Paintings
Accession Number	FO199100007000
Summary	Villon’s brother Raymond Duchamp-Villon died in 1918, and in his memory, Jacques made a series of paintings between 1919 and 1920 based on Raymond’s sculptural portrait of “Baudelaire.” One of this series, this work is a bold experiment in expressing three-dimensionality through combinations of geometric planes and color gradations. The subject is analyzed in layers of horizontal planes, and as a result, the verticality and volume which are the essence of “Presence” appear in a very pure and abstract form. It is noteworthy that the power of color, which was eliminated from the Cubism of Braque and Picasso, is used here as a means of transforming the weight and density of the subject into two dimensions.

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Native place	Damville, FRA
Birth	1875
Dead place	Puteaux, FRA
Died	1963
Biography	Villon was born in Damville, France. His real name was Gaston Duchamp. After studying at school in Rouen, he moved to Paris where he worked as an illustrator. Around 1910 he devoted himself to paintings and prints. He became interested in Leonardo da Vinci’s theories of paintings and pursued an intellectual Cubist style, analyzing the subject matter on the basis of geometric principles. He was an important theoretical influence on the Cubist artists who gathered in his studio in the Paris suburb of Puteaux. This group, which called itself the Section d’Or (golden section), held an exhibition in 1912. In the 1920s he used a limited number of colored planes to compose his pictures, moving closer to pure abstraction. He joined the Abstract-Creation group in Paris in 1932. He died in Puteaux.

Presence

Jacques VILLON