Pre-Valentine Wonderful Sale
Lot 463:
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Keywords: Cubist Movement, Orphism, Early Modernism, Avant-Garde Paris School, Analytical Abstraction, Futurist Influence, Fernand Léger style, Robert Delaunay style, Juan Gris style, oil on canvas, early 20th century, geometric structure, fragmented composition, picture
NO RESERVE Albert Gleizes (1881–1953), signed ‘M Gleizes’ "The Clock" Oil on canvas Cubist / Orphism painting.
Provenance: Collection of Prof.Dr. Wilhelm Salber, Kunsthaus Lempertz / Cologne, December 01, 1982, lot 284, Galerie Moenius, Berlin, Germany March 23, 2018
Artist Bio: Albert Gleizes, between1902 to 1905 began to paint seriously. Initially influenced by the Impressionists, at twenty-one his work La Seine a Asnieres was exhibited at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1902. With several friends in 1906 he founded the Abbaye de Creteil outside Paris. This commune of artists and writers scorned bourgeois society and sought to create nonallegorical, epic art based on modern themes. The commune closed in 1908 due to financial restraints and in 1909 he came under the influence of Fernand Leger, Robert Delauney, Jean Metzinger and later to Henri Faucconnier who led Gleizes to his cubist style. In 1910 he exhibited at the Salon des Independents, Paris and the Jack of Diamonds in Moscow. Later in his career he was commissioned for murals for the Paris Worlds Fair of 1937. In 1947, a major Gleizes retrospective occurred in Lyons. His work is housed in many notable museum collections including: the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Guggenheim, Venice; and the Tate Gallery, London.
Measurement: Art: 16 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (41.3 x 33.7 cm.), Frame: 20 3/4 x 17 3/4 in. (52.7 x 45.1 cm.) approx
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