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JACQUES VILLON Drawing 1924 Cubism Art

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JACQUES VILLON Drawing 1924 Cubism Art
JACQUES VILLON (Gaston Duchamp)
Damville 1875 - 1963 Paris (French)

The Dove - 1924
Hand Signed and Dated Original Pencil drawing

Title : The Dove

Technique : Original Pencil Drawing on paper fixed to cardboard

Work Size: : 27 X 13 cm / 10.7 X 5.2 inch.

Additional Information : The work is hand Signed by the artist in pencil "jacques Villon" at the lower right corner.
And also Hand dated in pencil at the same place '24 (1924).
This very important drawing represents the well known French Cubist artist in the beginning of his career.
Villon started to explure the Cubistic style from around 1910, and in this work he try to present the dove in a completly geometrical form.
Villon repeated the subject of birds in his works, and attempted to capture the true form of his subject in a cubistic manner.

Provenance :The work will be sold with a photo-certificate by Patrick Bongers (President of Edition Louis Carre), stating that this is an original drawing by Jacques Villon with the full details of the work, dated 1.8.2002.

Condition : damage to the paper in the upper right corner (the paper has been partly peeled).
otherwise in good condition.