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Jacques Villon

Jacques Villon

French, 1875–1963

WA-00029931

PrintmakingExpressionismArt NouveauSymbolism

Representation

None documented

42

Institutional Exhibitions

461

Works in Collection

728

Assets Indexed

4

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ452254 ULAN500003616

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Prints: Proofs and Variants

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989–1990

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The Cubist Imprint

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987–1988

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Iliazd and the Illustrated Book

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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Naked/Nude

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984

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The Symbolist Aesthetic

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1980–1981

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Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Si�cle Prints

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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Art of the Twenties

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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Arp on Paper

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977–1978

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Abstraction-Cr�ation, Art Non-Figuratif

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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Cubism and Its Affinities

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

Field Verification (4 fields)

3 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
BiographyGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/jacques-villon
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/jacques-villon
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6165
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

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Graph relationships

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Printmaking

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York

Canonical record

Artworks (461)

Jacques Villon presented by Lionello Venturi

Jacques Villon presented by Lionello Venturi

1962 · Bound volume of 8 color lithographs on cream wove paper, with text

Art Institute of Chicago

Jacques Villon presented by Lionello Venturi

Jacques Villon presented by Lionello Venturi

1962 · Bound volume of 8 color lithographs on cream wove paper, with text

Art Institute of Chicago

Arthur Rimbaud

1961 · Etching

plate: 9 5/16 x 7" (23.6 x 17.8 cm); sheet: 19 1/4 x 14 5/8" (48.9 x 37.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 31) from À POÈMES ROMPUS

1960 · Soft ground etching and aquatint with roulette (executed by Marcel Fiorini after Villon drawing), printed in color

plate 5 1/2 x 4 1/2" (14 x 11.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

À Poèmes Rompus

1960 · 1 etching (wrapper front); and 5 etchings and aquatints (4 with roulette)

page 6 1/2 x 5 5/16" (16 x 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frontispiece from À POÈMES ROMPUS

1960 · Soft ground etching and aquatint with roulette (executed by Marcel Fiorini after Villon drawing), printed in color

plate 5 1/2 x 4 1/2" (13.9 x 11.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

DICE (wrapper front) from À POÈMES ROMPUS

1960 · Soft ground etching, printed in black

irreg. composition 3 1/4 x 2 5/8" (8.2 x 6.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 39) from À POÈMES ROMPUS

1960 · Soft ground etching and aquatint Not in by Marcel Fiorini after Villon drawing), printed in color

plate 5 1/2 x 4 1/2" (13.9 x 11.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 23) from À POÈMES ROMPUS

1960 · Soft ground etching and aquatint with roulette (executed by Marcel Fiorini after Villon drawing), printed in color

plate 5 1/2 x 4 1/2" (14 x 11.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 51) from À POÈMES ROMPUS

1960 · Soft ground etching and aquatint with roulette (executed by Marcel Fiorini after Villon drawing), printed in color

plate 5 1/2 x 4 1/2" (13.9 x 11.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1960 · Illustrated book with seven etchings, two with drypoint

Prints: various dimensions. Page (very irreg.): 16 1/4 - 16 1/2" x 5 5/16 - 11 7/16" (41.3 - 42.0 x 13.5 - 29.0 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 17 verso) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching and drypoint, printed in black

plate 12 1/2 x 8 7/8" (31.7 x 22.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 16) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching and drypoint, printed in black

plate 12 1/2 x 9 5/16" (31.8 x 23.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 12) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching, printed in black

plate 12 7/16 x 8 3/4" (31.6 x 22.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 15 verso) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching, printed in black

plate 12 1/2 x 9 5/16" (31.8 x 23.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 10) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching, printed in black

plate 12 1/2 x 9 3/8" (31.8 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 5 verso) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching, printed in black

plate 12 1/2 x 8 3/4" (31.7 x 22.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (folio 9 verso) from AJOURNEMENT

1960 · Etching, printed in black

plate 12 1/2 x 9 3/8" (31.8 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Birds in Flight

Birds in Flight

1958 · Lithograph in color on ivory wove paper

Image: 30.3 × 40.9 cm (11 15/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 42.5 × 56.2 cm (16 3/4 × 22 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Birds in Flight

Birds in Flight

1958 · Lithograph

composition: 11 15/16 x 16 1/8" (30.4 x 41 cm); sheet: 16 3/4 x 21 15/16" (42.5 x 55.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Composition

1957 · Drypoint and etching on ivory wove paper

Plate: 20.7 × 18.5 cm (8 3/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Sheet: 33 × 25 cm (13 × 9 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Plate (page 57) from LAUS VENERIS

plate 7 3/8 x 6 1/4" (18.8 x 15.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Fertile Eyes (Les Yeux fertiles) (plate) from Un Poème dans chaque livre

The Fertile Eyes (Les Yeux fertiles) (plate) from Un Poème dans chaque livre

1956 · Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving with roulette from an illustrated book with seven etchings (three with aquatint, one with aquatint, drypoint, engraving, and roulette), three drypoints (one with engraving), two aquatints, two woodcuts, one engraving, and one lithograph

plate: 6 1/16 × 5 13/16" (15.4 × 14.8 cm); page: 7 1/2 × 7 1/16" (19 × 18 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plate (page 17) from LAUS VENERIS

plate 8 5/16 x 5 1/2" (21.1 x 13.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

461 published of 725 catalogued · 418 with image

MoMA
264 publishedof 528 catalogued226 img
Art Institute Chicago
192 published192 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
5 published

Record

Images

Jacques Villon

Museum of Modern Art

Globes (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Globes (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

9

Movements5

Expressionism Art Nouveau Symbolism Abstract Art Cubism

Collections4

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

Market

Auction sale history

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