School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Jacques Villon

Born: 1875, France, Normandy, Damville   Died: 1963, Paris

Painter and printmaker. Changed his name from Gaston Duchamp in 1895. Brother of Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968). Moved to Paris in 1894 where he first studied law and then, in 1904, art at the Académie Julian. He worked as an illustrator and cartoonist around the turn of the century and later served as a camouflage officer in the First World War. He won the Grand Prize at the 1956 Venice Biennale. He experimented with Cubism but also painted landscapes and scenes of farm life

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Composition PR875 Prints

La Femme au Piano PR799 Prints




 
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