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Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes
French, 1881 - 1953
Composition, circa 1922
Oil on canvas
32 x 25½ inches / 81.2 x 64.8 cm
Albert Gleizes grew up in
Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris,
and at the age of 19 began work
in the family fabric and interior
design business. He found this to
be an invaluable experience, later
claiming that the necessary accuracy
demanded by design proved
imperative to his artistic training.
Gleizes was preoccupied with
restructuring and synthesizing the
real world according to his own
perceptions. This painting is a typical
example of the artist’s work from the
1920s, recalling the aesthetics of
fabric design in which geometric, flat
patches of colour are juxtaposed to
construct an abstract image.
Provenance
Juliette Roche-Gleizes, Paris (the artist’s wife)
Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, by 1960
Galerie Françoise Tournié, Paris, by 1974
Private collection, Germany
Thence by descent to the previous owner
Exhibited
Aix-en-Provence, Galerie Lucien Blanc, Exposition Albert Gleizes,
1881-1953, 1960, no. 38, illustrated
Avignon, Musée Calvet, Exposition Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953, 1962
Anvers, International Cultural Centre, Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953, 1973,
no. 11, illustrated
Montauban, Musée Ingres, Rencontres d’art, Hommage à Albert Gleizes,
1973, no. 9
Paris, Galerie Françoise Tournié, Albert Gleizes et ses amis, retrospective de
l’exposition réalisée par Albert Gleizes au Salon des Tuileries de 1938, 1974,
no. 7, illustrated
Literature
Anne Varichon, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. 1,
no. 1089, illustrated p. 360
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