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Biography of Raymond Duchamp-VillonName: Raymond Duchamp-VillonBirth Date: November 5, 1876 Death Date: October 17, 1918 Place of Birth: N/A Nationality: French Gender: Male Occupations: artist, sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon The French sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918) was one of the pioneers of the modern movement in sculpture.Raymond Duchamp-Villon was born on Nov. 5, 1876, the second of the six children of a notary in Rouen. Christened Raymond Duchamp, he changed his name to distinguish himself from his artist brothers: Gaston, who took the name of Jacques Villon, and Marcel Duchamp. Their father encouraged them to follow careers of their own choosing. All were drawn to art, and each was given a small stipend for support.Duchamp-Villon went to Paris to study medicine, but by 1898 he had turned to sculpture. He was essentially self-taught. His first work, which showed the influence of Auguste Rodin, was of such high quality that he was admitted to the Salon of the prestigious Societé Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1901. His sculpture then changed, away from Rodin's earthy humanitarianism toward a neoclassicism in the manner of Aristide Maillol …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Italian futurism than to cubism. Duchamp-Villon knew the futurist artist Umberto Boccioni personally and was probably influenced by him. Horse, built on a spirallike composition, suggests involuted layers, which gather into a concentration of dynamic, aggressive energy.Duchamp-Villon served in the army during World War I. He contracted blood poisoning and died at a military hospital in Cannes on Oct. 17, 1918. Further Reading An informative work on Duchamp-Villon is William C. Agee, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918 (1968), the catalog for an exhibition held at Knoedler's; it contains an excellent bibliography. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum published Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp (1956), an exhibition catalog with a short text by James Johnson Sweeney. Discussions of Duchamp-Villon's work can be found in Carola Giedion-Welcker, Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space (1955; 2d ed. 1961); Jean Selz, Modern Sculpture: Origins and Evolution (trans. 1963); and Eduard Trier, Form and Space: The Sculpture of the Twentieth Century (trans. 1961). |