RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON (1876-1918)

CHEVAL ET CHEVALIER (1ER TAT)

細節

RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON (1876-1918)
CHEVAL ET CHEVALIER (1ER TAT)
SIGNED AND INSCRIBED WITH FOUNDRY MARK ON THE BASE 'DUCHAMP VILLON LOUIS CARR DITEUR .GEORGES RUDIER. FONDEUR. PARIS'
BRONZE WITH BLACK PATINA
HEIGHT: 8IN. (21.5CM.)
ORIGINAL VERSION EXECUTED IN 1914; THIS BRONZE VERSION CAST AT A LATER DATE

來源

GALERIE LOUIS CARR, PARIS (ACQUIRED BY WILLIAM RAND, 1964)

出版

W. PACH, RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON, SCULPTEUR, PARIS, 1924
C. GIEDION-WELCKER, VERANKERUNG UND VORSTOSS BEI RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON, APRIL, 1964, NO. 8 (ANOTHER CAST ILLUSTRATED, P. 152)
G. H. HAMILTON AND W. C. AGEE, RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON, NEW YORK, 1967, FIG. 60 (ILLUSTRATED, P. 87)

展覽

NEW YORK, M. KNOEDLER & CO., INC., RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON, OCT.-NOV., 1967, FIG. 60 (ILLUSTRATED, P. 87)

拍品專文

THE TALENTED CAREER OF RAYMOND DUCHAMP-VILLON, ONE OF THE FIRST CUBIST SCULPTORS, WAS TRAGICALLY CUT SHORT BY HIS EARLY DEATH IN 1918 AT AGE 42. AT FIRST INFLUENCED BY RODIN, DUCHAMP-VILLON MOVED RAPIDLY INTO THE THEORIES OF CUBISM. HIS SERIES OF EQUESTRIAN SCULPTURES BEGUN AROUND 1914 ELEGANTLY ARTICULATE HIS EVOLVING INTERPRETATION OF FORM IN MOTION. CHEVAL ET CHEVALIER IS THE FIRST OF FIVE STAGES FOR WHICH THE FINAL VERSION, LE CHEVAL HAS BEEN WIDELY ACCLAIMED TO BE THE "CLIMACTIC MONUMENT AND MOMENT IN THE FORMAL DEVELOPMENT OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCULPTURE." (G.H. HAMILTON AND W.C. AGEE, OP. CIT., P. 11)

THIS SERIES EXPRESSES THE NATURAL ANIMATION OF THE HORSE IN TERMS OF MECHANISTIC DYNAMICS.

DUCHAMP-VILLON'S GENERATION, WHICH CAME TO MATURITY IN PREWAR PARIS, EMBRACED THE MACHINE AND THE DYNAMISM OF A NEW AGE WITH CHEERFUL AND EAGER OPTIMISM. THIS GENERATION SEIZED THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE MACHINE AND ITS IMPACT ON MODERN LIFE TO BRING FORTH AN AESTHETIC WHICH WAS AN INTRINSIC PART OF THE REVOLUTION THEN TRANSFORMING THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF THE ARTS... THE MOST PROFOUND AND COMPLEX EMBODIMENT OF THE TRANSITION FROM THE NINETEENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY IS DUCHAMP-VILLON'S HORSE, SYMBOL OF A REVOLUTION STILL IN PROGRESS... DUCHAMP-VILLON'S HORSE AND RIDER IS POISED AT THE MOMENT PRIOR TO THE LEAP, IN THIS CASE A METAPHORICAL LEAP ACROSS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY INTO THE REALITIES OF A NEW AGE. (IBID., PP. 89-90)