Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)

Paysage

Details

Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)
Paysage
signed and dated 'Alb Gleizes 1914' (lower right)
pen and India ink on paper
8½ x 10¾ in. (21.5 x 27.5 cm.)
Drawn in 1914

Provenance

Rachel Adler Fine Art, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

The Art Institute of Chicago, Graphic Modernism, Selections from the Francey and Dr. Martin L. Gecht Collection, November 2003-January 2004, p. 61, no. 52 (illustrated in color, p. 61).

Lot Essay

Immediately following the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Gleizes was called up for military service and joined a regiment stationed in Toul, near Nancy. He continued to draw and paint watercolors during this period. This drawing is closely related to three gouaches depicting a suburban landscape, all dated 1914 (cf. Varichon, nos. 495-497). Gleizes painted his first abstract compositions in late 1914 and 1915.

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