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Jacques Villon (1875-1963), Maternité, c 1948, French. Oil on canvas. 146x96.5 cm. Courtesy of the Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wis (http://www.marquette.edu/haggerty); gift of Mr and Mrs Ira Haupt.

It was his younger brother, Marcel Duchamp, who got the fame (more properly the notoriety) but it was Jacques Villon (1875-1963) who has endured. Self-effacing, modest, and unassuming, Villon worked with a quiet dedication that has made him the "painter's painter." By patience, long observation, and constant experimentation, he advanced modern art beyond the purely Impressionist and Cubist forms of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to a new concept of space and the figure's relation to it. Reproductions do even less justice to his work than to that of most other painters, but some idea, at least, can be gleaned from careful study. Barring direct experience of a Villon . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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