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PAL SS AL from The Solomon It. Guggenheim Foundation 120 Broadwag, New York 5, N. 1. REctor 2-9740

in Newspapers of Wednesday, February 20, 1957

February 18, 1957

Harry F, Guggenheim, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Solomon

Guggenheim Foundation, announces that on Wednesday, February 20, the

Museum of the Foundation in its temporary quarters, 7 East 72nd Street,

will open an exhibition TIff?EE 0TiRS featuring the work of Jacques Vi1-

Lon, Rayiiond Ducha-Vi11on and Marcel Ducharip.

The exhibition includes 27 paintings by Jacques Villon, 15 sculptures

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11 paintings and a “ready ade” by 4arce1 Ducha’rip.under

protected be reproduce. This is the first retrospectiveArchivesmay Mw3eum presentation of thE combined not work of these three artists, Thecopy Doearliest example in the exhilitoo, the Museum this only. ‘ortrart of Madame Villon, in1905, and the most recent, 1955, use both by Jacques Villon. Raymond DuchampVi11on, the middic troU ci Guggenheim reproducedpersonal ho died i theR. First ‘Jorid her, is representci by fifteen pieces of ac1p— for t dating r’rom 1909is to 1918. These include Baudelaire, whiei ws Iirt material Solomon copy hon in NewThe York in the Armory Show of 1913, his monumental bronze head This

of , 1911, anc his famous Horse of l9IL. The work of fl&re1 Luhanip,

the younge :;f the rhre, u’ seen in its full mature ev1utio frm

the Czannesquo portrait Arsts Father, 1910, through twi vor3ionc

of the famous Nude ndi a staircase to his notorious “ready—nadt”

— w1? mTiall bird cage I flied w U

nerbi locks in the shape of lump sugar, a thermometer and a utt1e one,

Jacques Vill on, internationally known for his painting and graphic

work, was born at rariville (Eure) France. The family name was Ducharip.

Gaston, the oldest brother, gave up his legal studies for art in 189L

and assumed the name Jacques Villori when he began to cont ribute draw

ings to L’Assiette au Beurre, Le Courrier Fran and other weekly news

papers. In 190L he became an associate member of the &ion dAutomne and

served as a member of the Committee until 1911. His first exhibition

i as hc d with his brother Raymond Duch irp-VPLlon in Rouen in 1905. He was — 2- represented in the New York Armory Show in 1913 by nine caiases (of which

are in the present exhibitio.n: Puteau, Smoke in Bloom, 1912, and Youn Girl, 19l2) Villcns first American one—man show was held at the Sccie Anonyme in flew York in 1922. During the next three decades ho had many one—man shows in this country as well as in various European centers, In 196 he was awarded the first prize for painting at the Venice

Biennale

Villont s younger brother Raymond, who apended “Vilion’ to his name, began as a student of medicine but soon cavo this up to devote himself

to sculpture, Lar’e1y self—taught, he reflected in his early work the

influence of Rodin and later Maillol. From l9C to 1913 he ras an annual

exhibitor in the Salon dtAutomne and in 1912 participated in the important

cubist exhibitio, Section. d’Or, of which his brother Jacques Vilon was copyright. one of the founders In the New York Armory Show of 1913 five of his under sculptures were exhibited. Versions of three, Torso of a Nan, Girl

exhibition. When of the Woods and Saudelaire, are includedprotectedin the present be war broke out in 191L he joined the Frenchreproduce.army as medical officer to the Archivesmay not 11th Regiment of Cuirassiera, In 1916 he contracted blood poisoning from copy Do

Museum rofessor Gosset, lent which he died in 1918 Thethisbronze only. Portrait of in to the exhibition by :Lr, anduse Hrs Walter Bach, Sew York, is a portrait

of the doctor whoGuggenheimattended him in his last illness, reproducedpersonal R. M..arcei Duchamp,for the youngest of the three, whose wcrk has enjoyed is material a wid.e Solomoninternational copy recoghition over the last four decades, was born The in Blainville•This near Ronen in 1887, He began to study painting in Paris

in 106, His work in the early years evolved from a frank imrressionism

through a Cëzannean emphasis, In the 1910 Salon d’Automne he exhbited

The krtistts Father which is in the current exhibition, In 1912 he

exhibited with his brothers in the Section dtOr, He was represented in

the New York Armory Show of 1913 by three paintings in the present ex

hibition, The Nina and 9ucen Surrounded Swift Nudes, ?ot.rtit of Chess

Slavers and the new famous Nude Descendin a Starcase, which was de

scribed by one journalist of the day as looking like “an explosion in a

shingle factory.” The following year he exhibited his first “ready—modes”, ubjocts niade works of t through the choice of the artist,

In 1915 Duchamp made his first visit to the United States He re— named here until after the conclusion of hosti].ities, returning to Europe —

he bean work on his Large G1eas In — than only briefly in 19l9 1915 _—

This major work was still unfinished in 1923, uhen he abandoned painting to devote himself to eneriments in ontics and mDchanics

In 4merica he was a pivotal figure in .he Dada movement, vorLing in the plastic arts, cinema and lito’ature with visual and literary puns and anagrams. ‘Jith Lathorine Order he was one of the organizers in 1920

of the Uccietd Anore in yew Yorl-, the first museii of modern Drt, i’rom

Q2) he participated influentially in surrealist activity here and in

Paris4 The rts Club of Chicago presented the first on—man exhibit of copyright. Duchomps work in 19378 He became an Luerican citizen in 19S. under Miong the Museun lenders to the exhibition the Philadelphia Museum

of Art has centrihuted the largest ing1e group from The Louise ano protected Jolter Arenaberg Collection. Other nuseurisbe which have co11borated are: reproduce. Archivesmay Muses k tional cPArt Moderne, Paris; notYale University Art Gallery, Mew copy Do Cal— Inven, Connecticut, CollectionMuseum of the ‘ocit Anonime; The Phillips this only. in lection, Mashington, 0, C.; useThe Carnegie institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;

The :useum of Modern Arts, IJw York Guggenheim reproducedpersonal R. The private collectionsfor represented include: Tr, and ‘frs Francis is materialNew York; Jr, and is, Pan rUlodes Johnson, Now York; Mr. and SteegmuUer,Solomon copy The Mrs. Ira Haupt,This Jew York; Jr. Miels OnstaJ, Mew York; Jr. ane Jrs Charles

slob, N t York; Jr4 Richard S Ziesler, New Yorl; ir ani Ns Ihury J,

Mc L, II, Pitt& urgh, Penna; Jr and Ur, Welter Pach, New Y,r; in,

Alandor l3ng, Mow York; Jr, irar :f:n, Jr, Mew York.

ThI. GrJ Lci Cec”e cJ is ho in eel rcs1 notable owanlos

of bo’ 1 zccp’ 1 end U MrmonU Duohu I work,

TMIEE PILL :s tl public opcnthg .f Le Solomon F, Guggenheim

Museumts teinporry galleries at 7 Jest 72nd Street, .t this oidrers a

modest exhibition aco has been arranged to remit the useum to carry

on ‘ propran of exhibitions end gellery tc lks until the opening of

the new Musoum Buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright on Lifth Avenue between

8 th and 89th dire ts, The exhibition will contint on wiew in the Guggenheim Mueers through

lard 10th; althr this it will ohown froni March 22nd through kpnil 21st in ho Fine Arts luscum of Houtn, Texas, which has collaborated with th’ Gugenheirn huseun in its rpi izaicn,

G1iory talks on TWdT IF( tl0 will be iven by Georgine Oeri and

Louis Pvu1il vencisen,

ni1a illItE BR00IUR will Pe foU.owed or !arch 20th by the showing of th cannidato pictures for th Gunheim Internation1. &ward

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