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ALBERT GLEIZES
1881
1953
A RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
BY
DANIEL ROBBINS
THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK
IN COLLABORATION WITH
M USEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE. PARIS
MUSEUM AM OSTWALL DORTMUND

PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS
SAX FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART
CITY ART MUSEUM OF ST. LOUIS
KRANNERT ART MUSEUM, COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, CHAMPAIGN
THE COLUMBUS GALLERY OF FINE ARTS
THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA. OTTAWA
ALBRIGHT-KNOX GALLERY, BUFFALO
THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO
Published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1964 All Rights Reserved by the Author and Publisher
Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number: 64-25186 Printed in The Netherlands

THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION
TRUSTEES
HARRY F. GUGGENHEIM. PRESIDENT
ALBERT E. THIELE. VICE PRESIDENT
H. H. ARNASON, VICE PRESIDENT. ART ADMINISTRATION
ELEANOR. COUNTESS CASTLE STEWART
DANA DRAPER
PETER O. LAWSON-JOHNSTON
A. CHAOTCEY NEWLIN
MRS. HENRY OBRE
DANIEL CATTON RICH
MICHAEL F. WETTACH
MEDLEY G. B. WHELPLEY
CAUL ZIGROSSER
It is appropriate that this first major exhibition of the
works of Albert Gleizes should be an international and
collaborative venture among three nations indisputably
linked with the painter. First and foremost, Gleizes is a
French artist, a founder of Cubism and an influence on

the School of Paris. He was also a member of Der Sturm,
and his many theoretical writings were originally most

appreciated in Germany, where especially at the Bauhaus
his ideas were given sympathetic consideration. Finally,

he spent four crucial years in New York, and played an
important role in making America aware of modern art.
His key paintings, long since scattered far and wide
across the globe, are, at last, brought together in this

retrospective evaluation of his life work.
Jean Cassou, Conservateur en Chef Thomas M. Messer, Director Dr. Leonie Reygers, Director
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Museum Am Ostwall, Dortmund
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is the obvious institution to launch the first retro-
spective exhibition of Albert Gleizes in America. For its collection numbers no less than 58
paintings, drawings and prints - a wealth unattained by any other museum in this countrv.
Such richness in the Museum's custody contrasts with a prevailing indifference toward
Gleizes' art - an indifference that to date has remained unrelieved by a single full-fledged
museum survey in this countrv. As a result, judgements about Gleizes and his work have been
based too often upon ready-made assumptions and too seldom upon inspection of the works.
As we look again, or more likely, as we look for the first time, we become aware of the in-
sufficiency of categories and of the damaging effect of generalizations. "Cubism" as a pigeon-
hole becomes either too small or too large to accomodate the specific contribution of Gleizes if
we insist that the term should also retain its validity for a particular period in the painting of
Picasso and Braque. As is made plain in a key passage of the following introduction, Gleizes
and those sharing his thoughts were seeking different solutions and employed quite different
means. His aspirations deserve better than to be judged, as heretofore, in terms of their
closeness or remoteness to an imaginary prototype.
The principal victim of superficial and generalized criticism is. of course, the individual work.
In order to see a concentrated choice of such works for their own sake and to contemplate
them within the amplitude of Albert Gleizes" creative development, this exhibition and cata-
logue have been prepared.
The reevaluation of Gleizes' contribution consists of two retrospective exhibitions, similarly
conceived - one for North American, the other for European circulation - as well as of this
catalogue that covers both. These separate parts of a comprehensive project were carried out
bv Daniel Robbins. Assistant Curator of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, liears of
close attention to Albert Gleizes' life-work have qualified Mr. Robbins to undertake a selection
and documentation that now is gratefully acknowledged as an original and important con-
tribution to scholarship.
Thomas M. Messer. Director
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My particular gratitude is due to Madame Albert Gleizes, whose enthusiasm,
cooperation and documentary resources made this study and exhibition possible:
to Dr. Robert Goldicater, for guiding the preparation of my related dissertation,
submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Fine Arts, .Aezf I ork University; and
to Jacques Barzun, for advice and assistance in locating source material.
For their kindness and help, I leant to thank Dr. Eileen MacCarvill and Dr. Tliomas
MacGreevey of Dublin: Rex de C. Nan Kivell, London: Bernard Dorival, Mme.
Sonia Delaunay and Henry Zerner, Paris: Mme. Madeleine Rocher-Jauneau,
M. and Mme. Rene De'roudille, Andre Dubois, and Jean Chevalier of Lyon:
Georges Deloye, M. and Mme. Andre Brun, Avignon; the late Joseph Olivier of
St. Remy-de-Provence; Walter W. Firpo and Mme. Marie Latour of Marseilles;
Mme. Gabrielle Kueny, Grenoble ; Maurice Allemand of St. Etienne : Commandant
Georges Houot, Toulon: Claude Gleizes and Matthew Robbins, J\eic 1 ork.
M. Edouard Morot-Sir, French Cultural Counselor to the United States, kindly
assisted in the negotiations of certain loans.
Thanks are due William Camfield and Edward Fry for the contribution and gener-
ous exchange of important documents entered in the Bibliography and Exhibition
list. Many entries were checked by Lucy Lippard and arranged by David Robbins.
For the generous contribution of color plates, we are indebted to Arthur G. Altschul,
Lester Avnet, Ben Garber, Professor Milton Handler, Leonard Hutton, Rudolf
Indlekofer, Samuel Josefowitz, Morton G. Neumann, Herbert M. Rothschild,
Augustin Terrin, Siegfried Lllmann, Pedro Vallenilla Echeverria, Richard S.
Zeisler, The Musee de Grenoble, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna and
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, J\eic I ork.
Finally, I wish to acknoicledge the support of the Director and the staff of The
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in the preparation of this publication, particu-
larly Susan Tumarkin, Linda Konheim and Cara Dufour, who typed much of the
manuscript and Dr. Louise Averill Svendsen, who edited the catalogue.
D.R.
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LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul, New York Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried Ullmann. Palm Beach
Mr. and Mrs. Lester A\Tiet, Kings Point, New York Dr. Jules Vache. Lunel, France
Herbert M. Barrows, Ann Arbor, Michigan Pedro \ allenilla Echeverria, Caracas
Jacques Barzun, New York Mr. and Mrs. Ham- Lewis ^ inston, Birmingham, Michigan
Madame Henri Benezit, Paris Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Zacks, Toronto
Rene Deroudille, Lyon Richard S. Zeisler, New York

\^ alter Firpo, Marseilles
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Freeman, New York Aibright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fuller, New York The Cincinnati Art Museum
Madame P. de Gavardie, Paris The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris Musee de Dijon

Germaine Henry, Paris Stadtische Galerie im Landesmuseum, Hannover
Professor and Mrs. Milton Handler, New York ^ adsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Commandant Georges Houot, La Fleche, France The Trustees of The Tate Gallery, London
Leonard Hutton-Hutschnecker, New York The Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Rudolf Indlekofer. Basel Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Josefowitz, New "iork Musee Cantini. Marseilles
Josefowitz Collection, Geneva The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New \ ork

Messrs. Kennedy-Garber, New 'i ork Rijksmuseum Kroller Muller. Otterloo
Rex de C. Nan Kivell, London Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Edouard Labouchere, Paris Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Levin, Palm Beach Philadelphia Museum of Art
Madame Ferdinand Moller, Cologne Saarland-Museum, Saarbriicken

Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann. Chicago Musee d'Art et dTndustrie, St. Etienne
Collection Lady Norton, London Nationalmuseum. Stockholm

Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia The Art Gallery of Toronto
Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Rafel, South Orange, New Jersey Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna
Dr. Henri.' M. Roland, London

Collection Romanet, Paris Galerie Moos. Geneva
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Rothschild, Kitchawan, New York Leonard Hutton Galleries, New 'iork
Mr. and Mrs. John Strauss, Glencoe, Illinois Marlborough-Gerson Gallery. New ^ ork
Augustin Terrin, Marseilles Galerie L. Bourdon. Paris
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1881 Born. Paris. December 8. Raised in Courbevoie. Secondary education at College Chaptal.
1900 'ft orked in his father's fabric design atelier.
1902 First exhibits at Societe Rationale des Beaux-Arts. Paris.

1903 First exhibits at the Salon d Automne. Military service
' until 1905.
1905 Founder of the Association Ernest Renan.

1906-1908 Founded and participated in the Abbaye de Creteil.
1909-1910 Paris, met through Mercereau. Le Fauconnier. Metzinger. Delaunay. and others.
1911 Exhibited in "room 41". Salon des Independants. Scandal about Cubism.
Commenced extensive writing. Friendly \rith DuchampA illon family:
formation of the Artists of Passy group.

1912 Published Du Cubisme with Metzinger.
Assists in the formation of the Section d'Or.
1914 Called into Army. First completely abstract works.
1915 Demobilized, married Juliette Roche and visits New \ork.

1916 Barcelona. Spring through Autumn. 1916.
1917 Returns to New "i ork via Cuba. \ isits Bermuda.

1918 Summer in Pelham. Xew "iork: beginning of religious orientation.
1919 Returns to France. Spring.
1921 First painting students: early formulation of theories of picture construction.
1922-1926 Gradual withdrawal from Paris-centered art world:
increased interest in social and intellectual problems.
1927 Established Moly-Sabata. a second Utopian community of artists-craftsmen in Sablons.
1927-1928 Pochoirs. often recapitulating earlier paintings, are begun in an effort
to make reasonably priced art available to a wide public.
1930 Strongest Romanesque influences appear in his art and in the concurrent writing of
La Forme et L'Histoire, published in 1932. Participates in Abstraction- Creation movement.
1934-1935 Reintroduction of rigorous brush work.
1937 Executes murals for the Paris Exposition des Arts.
1939 Permanently moves to St. Remy-de-Provenee.

1941 Rejoins Roman Catholic church.
1947 Major retrospective exhibition at Lyon. Chapelle du Lycee Ampere.

1949-1950 Illustrated the Pensees of Pascal.
1951 Awarded Grand Prix at the first French Biennial. Menton.
1952 The Eucharist is executed in fresco for the Chapel "Les Fontaines'" at Chantilly.
1953 Died. Avignon. June 23.

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ALBERT GLEIZES: REASON AND FAITH IN MODERN PAINTING
BY D1X1EL BOBBINS
Albert Gleizes was the son of Sylvan Gleizes, a successful fabric designer and talented amateur
painter. His maternal uncle, Leon Commerre, was a fashionable painter who had won the Prix de Rome in
1875 as well as numerous official commissions and another uncle. Robert Gleizes, was a collector-dealer,
specializing in eighteenth century paintings and objects. The name Gleizes, traced to Languedoc origins, is a
Provencal version of eglise (evidence, as we shall see, in support of Lawrence Sterne's theories on the im-
portance of names). The Gleizes' lived in Courbevoie, which at that time was quite rural, in a comfortable
villa surrounded by a garden large enough to include a separate studio for Albert. He was always very close
to his two sisters Suzanne and Mireille (an elder brother had died in infancy), and his paintings frequently
include their figures as well as that of his mother. It was intended that Gleizes should receive a normal bour-
geois education but, rebelling against the discipline of conventional methods, he frequently and secretly
substituted comedy classes at the drama conservatory for attendance at his prescribed courses. When his
authoritarian father discovered what was going on, he promptly put Albert to work in his design shop where
he could personally supervise and discipline him. Working with fifteen or twenty other employees, Gleizes
found the activity valuable, later claiming that the necessary precision demanded by design was important
to his artistic training. The anonymous designs produced in the atelier were largely eighteenth century in
inspiration (destined for draperies, upholstery and clothing), but a certain art nouveau influence also crept in. 1
Before his twentieth birthday, Gleizes was called to military service, a prospect which filled the
father with more pleasure than it did the son, for the youth already exhibited a tendency toward pacifism
and a desire to become a painter. This last would have been perfectly acceptable if Albert seemed likely to
follow the example of his academic uncle but, since he appeared to prefer the Impressionist and Neo-Impres-
sionist painters, his ambition was frowned upon. Despite lack of encouragement, however, Gleizes began to
paint seriously while serving in the north of France, and even submitted his works to the Salon Nationale
des Beaux-Arts. 2 His early subject matter reveals a preoccupation with social themes: laundresses, workers
'Some of these fabrics are still preserved in the home of the artist's sister, Mireille Houot-Nayral, at La Fleche.
2
The Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts was founded in 1890 by a group of dissident artists, including Puvis de Chavannes
and Rodin, in opposition to the Societe des Artistes Francais, the official salon. See John Rewald, Post Impressionism:
From Van Gogh to Gauguin, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1956, p. 462.
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on the quais, factory laborers; but it also included some mysterious night scenes: small solitary figures
writing by lantern light in front of camp tents, or the silhouette of a wind mi ll or church seen against a night
sky. Gleizes and his closest friend, the future poet-writer Rene Arcos, had developed an inclination for sym-
bolist poetry and for the politics of democratic socialism. Believing ardently in simple brotherhood without
organized religion, they read and admired W hitman. \ erhaeran and Ernest Renan; the philosophy of Compte,
the sociology' of Durkheim. the music of \^ agner. the painting of Pissarro, the history of Taine and Michelet.
all these contained concepts which influenced the two friends before they began active participation in the
broader cultural world.

For the first five years of his serious artistic life, from about 1901-05. Gleizes appears to have had
little direct awareness of activity in the art world, even less contact with other painters. Certainly, he was
familiar with the work of Pissarro and Seurat and he admired Gauguin^, but these connections provided
vicarious rather than experienced culture. In contrast, young painters like Braque and Picasso, even Metzinger
and Delaunay (who. as Gleizes' friends, were later to share many of his ideals), already were engaged in a
struggle for recognition. In Paris they learned the channels for success, the structure of relationships and
contacts, the development of the gallery-centered art market, and they observed with interest the growth of
various personalities and schools. The unsophisticated Gleizes however, regarded the city as a bourgeois
creation, a destestable place designed to trap artists as it trapped workers into a thousand evils, the worst of
which would have been the corruption conferred by bourgeois approval.

Notwithstanding their aversion to bourgeois city culture, Gleizes and Arcos, on completing their
military sendee, became involved with contemporary intellectual efforts, particularly those of a group of
sympathetic young writers who had been associated with the shortlived review La J ie. (including Duhamel,
Romains. \ ildrac and Mercereau). Believing that artists, intellectuals and workers were natural allies, all
chafing under the inequalities of the same system, and inspired by Gustave Kahn's Samedis Populaires and
other mutualites. they helped to establish the Association Ernest Renan, a kind of popular university" de-
signed to bring working men and intellectuals particularly artists together. In 1906. with the financial aid
of a new friend, Henri Martin Barzun. these young men established the Abbaye de Creteil. a phalanstery for
artists and writers. Barzun, rather more sophisticated than his fellow-idealists of the Abbaye, also introduced
Gleizes to the specific history of Utopian socialism. 4
Obviously, although Gleizes did not enter the Abbaye with a specific program and a crystallized
ideal, the conditions of his earlier fife and interests anticipated even necessitated his desire to found such
a community. His early works, developed in isolation, consistently investing a vista or a genre scene with
broader significance than the subject normally permitted, often reconciled the contrasts of exterior and in-
terior or united ancient usage with modern practice in simultaneously plastic and symbolic terms. Gleizes
seems never to have been absorbed by pure \ision but always hinted at something more, at relationships and
symbols. Thus, he would try to situate the whole of the modern city, an organism basically alien to him,
within the broader context of surrounding countryside. Similarly, he was haunted by the synthetic possibili-
ties of a river, not as an idyllic setting but as a source of life, an intrusion of external time and substance into
the cities of the Ile-de-France. These concerns were all brought to the Abbaye, where they were expanded
and matured.
The Abbaye, supposedly supporting itself through the communal metier of publishing, received
the blessing of many Symbolists, but it was not long before its members began to break with the forms of art
that had been practiced by the admired older generation. Like many Symbolists, the Abbaye artists scorned
3
In an unpublished part of his Souvenirs Gleizes wrote that an initial idea for the Abbaye of Creteil was to escape from
corrupt Western civilization to the simplicity f life in the South Seas, as he then believed Gauguin had done.
4
Barzun had been as deeply involved with politics as with poetry. In addition to publishing L Art Social from 1905, he
had served as secretary to Paul Boncour.
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the structure of a bourgeois world and sought to substitute a communal society, but they did not reject the
themes of modern life in favor of the Symbolist focus on single elements and internal, individual images.
Thev wished instead to create an epic and heroic art, stripped of ornament and obscure allegory, an art
dealing with the relevant subjects of modern life: crowds, man and machines, even, ultimately, the city itself.
It can be argued, of course, that the Abbaye intentions vast as they were remained unfulfilled and that
their dream, like that of the Symbolists before them, was an escape from reality. Yet there were important
distinctions, for the Abbaye intention to create a total future a priori ruled out the Symbolist technique of
creating solely from an aesthetic or a closed ideal.
If the physical scope and appearance of the world in 1906-07 hinted at the vast changes in progress,
the Abbaye artists expected much more. It is important to realize that their vision, although responding to
the conditions of modern life, did not seek to imitate those conditions, as Gleizes later accused the Futurist
artists of doing.5 Gleizes and his associates dreamed of creating the future and collectivity, multiplicity,
simultaneity were the key Abbaye concepts manifest in the work of Barzun, Arcos. and especially in the
related Unanimism of Jules Romains. Theirs was a self-conscious art, a synthetic concept of the possibilities
of the future. Their images invariably encompassed broad subjects winch, although dealing with reality, were
restricted neither by the limitations of physical perception nor by a separation of scientific fact from intellec-
tual meaning even symbolic meaning. Even their images of simultaneity were synthetic because scope was
too vast, both physically and symbolically, for one man's limited participation. The Abbaye, whose fame
circulated even in Moscow, attracted many artists. Marinetti and Brancusi were visitors there and young
writers like Roger Allard (one of the first to defend Cubism), Pierre Jean Jouve, and Paul Castiaux are typical
of the artists who wanted to have the Abbaye publish their works. Nevertheless, after only two years, the
Abbaye was forced to close, mainly because of material hardship. There simply was not enough money to
keep going.
Gleizes' style changed rapidly at the Abbaye. From a technique of paint application akin to Pointill-
ism and a light palette similar to Impressionism, Iris paint handling became more robust, areas of color and
brushwork grew simpler, and his structural rhythms became more pronounced, although softened by more
curvilinear forms. A synthetic view of the universe, presenting the remarkable phenomena of time and space,
multiplicity and diversity, at once was his painted equivalent to the ideals which were verbally realized in the
Abbaye poetry. Experienced in the treatment of inclusive landscapes, he nevertheless had to solve the problem
of balancing many simultaneous visions on a painted surface. Gleizes mitigated the distortion of distance by
linear perspective, by flattening the picture plane; his skies were on the same plane as the simple flat
objects in front and, although scale was retained, a form in the distance would be brought to the foreground
by making it bright. Every element of the painting had to be reduced to clear planes, treated as uniformly as
possible, for attention lavished on any one part would jeopardize the whole dehcate balance. In 1908, although
color range expanded in the winter river scenes and contracted in the summer landscapes, the horizon line
consist ently crept higher and higher.

Unknown to Gleizes, Le Fauconnier, who was living in comparative isolation in Brittany, was pur-
suing similar ends. The strange, red-bearded northerner, a former student at the Academie Julian and a
friend of Denis and the Nabis. was painting rocks and sea. His rocks became progressively more geometric
and his sea crept higher up the picture plane. He exhibited his rocks at the Independants in 1909 but Gleizes,
who had not yet exhibited in that salon, appears not to have seen the work, for the two artists, although
probably first introduced by Jouve or Castiaux, (the editors ofLes Bandeaux a" Or) did not know each other's
work until 1909 when they met again through Alexandre Mercereau. Mercereau, perhaps, realized even be-
fore they did the extent of their common interests.
In the Salon (TAutomne of 1909, however, Gleizes saw his new friend's portrait of Pierre Jean
Jouve and, as he recorded in his Souvenirs, was deeply impressed by the painting. (Gleizes was not represented
5
See Gleizes, "Des 'ismes'; vers une Renaissance plastique", Tradition et Cubisme, Paris, Povolovzky, 1927, p. 168 (first
published in La Vie des Lettres et des Arts, 1921).
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Fig. 1. Henri Le Fauconnier: Fig. 2. Albert Gleizes:

PORTRAIT OF PAUL CASTIAUX. 1910. PORTRAIT OF R.G.(leizes). 1910. Catalogue no. 20.
Oil on canvas, 40i X 31+" (100 X 80 cm.).
Private collection.
in that salon although he had exhibited there in 1903 and 1904). It is not unlikely that Gleizes" strong response
arose from the fact that Le Fauconnier's painting, actually less geometric than Gleizes' 1908 Pyrenees land-
scapes, applied sympathetic techniques to figure treatment. Gleizes had sketched figures often enough, but
because his search for a synthetic \ision that would reconcile disparate elements had fostered a natural pre-
dilection for landscape, his figure paintings were few. The Salon des Independants, 1910. saw the immediate
influence of Le Fauconnier in Gleizes" large portrait (now lost) of Rene Arcos. An oil sketch from 1909.
however, remains in the collection of Madame Gleizes and its combination of curves and straight lines,
strikingly related to the Jouve portrait, depicts Arcos in a dark, flatly-rendered coat, striding across an enor-
mous landscape. In 1910 both artists continued to concentrate on figures: Le Fauconnier on a portrait of the
poet Paul Castiaux and Gleizes on a majestic portrait of his uncle. Robert Gleizes. The two works are very
close and establish Gleizes' debt to Le Fauconnier for ha\ing stimulated his interest to encompas a new and
important element, the figure.
Mercereau is also responsible for having introduced Gleizes to Metzinger in 1910. the same year
that Mercereau included these three artists in a Moscow exhibition probably the first Jack of Diamonds
Exhibition. (Even before this meeting, Gleizes and Metzinger had been linked by \ auxcehVs disparaging
comments on "des cubes Blafards" 6 which , surely referred to Metzinger's Portrait of Apollinaire and Gleizes'
Tree at the Salon des Independants .) Mercereau. who had missed the opening of the Abbaye in order to ac-
company Nicolas Riabouchinsky to Moscow, had previously included Gleizes' Les Brumes du Matin sur la
Marne in a Russian exhibition of 1908. 7
Given Mercereau's long standing delight in promoting group activity, it is easy to recognize his
pleasure in having brought together three painters whose works exhibited similar interests and who could be
identified with his own synthetic ideals, ideals which had been influential in the Abbaye's development. As
6
Gil Bias, March 18, 1910. quoted in John Golding, Cubism, London, 1959, p. 22.
'See Toison d'Or, Moscow, 1908, nos. 7-10, p. 15.

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organizer of the literary section of the Salon d'Automne of 1909. he was able to introduce Gleizes to painters
exhibiting there and to introduce his own concepts to the world of painting. Metzinger. in his study of Merce-
reau s noted that the 1905 Les Thuribulums Affaisses had been an attempt to adjust the methods of the
.
fading Symbolists to new concepts and that in the 1910 work Les Contes des Tenebres. Mercereau had ban-
ished "anecdotal appearances", had made different forces operate within the same character and (like the
painters) had changed settings rapidly and fantastically.
Thus, in 1909 and 1910. a significant group of painters came to be integrated with Gleizes" older
circle of friends. The entire group, including Allard (whose book Le Bocage Amoureaux Gleizes was illustra-
ting in 1910). Barzun. Beauduin. Castiaux. Divoire. Parmentier, Marinetti. Theo A arlet. and even Apollinaire
and Salmon, became party" to the ideas of the Abbaye. 9 Apollinaire and Salmon were only peripheral members.
of course, the chameleon Apollinaire participating in almost every literary and artistic circle, but it is clear
that Apollinaire"s conception of Cubism was influenced by the epic notions found in the old Abbaye circle.
In his preface to the 1911 Brussels Independants, he wTote: "...thus has come a simple and noble art. expres-
sive and measured, eager to discover beauty-, and entirely ready to tackle those vast subjects which the painters
of yesterday did not dare to undertake, abandoning them to the presumptuous, old-fashioned and boring
daubers of the official Salons. " (italics mine). This conception is not based on the analytical Cubism of Picasso
and Braque. which had already contracted to the intensive study of form, had almost annihilated subject
confined in extremely shallow space. Instead, it suggests the broad concepts held by the Mercereau-Gleizes
circle, concepts which were at that time visible only in the paintings of Gleizes. Delaunay. Le Fauconnier
and Leger. The subjects treated by these Cubists, so markedly different from the isolated still fifes or figures
chosen by Picasso and Braque. have vital significance both as intentions and as productive of different forms.
Their significance is not diminished by the fact that the subjects themselves changed in the course of con-
ceptual and technical advances, eventually being absorbed by the abstract art of Gleizes and Delaunay.
As .Allard wrote of Gleizes. Le Fauconnier and Metzinger. in a review- of the 1910 Salon d'Automne.
"Thus is born at the antipodes of impressionism an art which cares little to imitate the occasional cosmic
episode, but which offers to the intelligence of the spectator the essential elements of a synthesis in time, in
all its pictorial fullness." 10 The synthetic preoccupation with epic themes was destined to develop and to be
transformed into abstract art in the work of Delaunay and Gleizes. In order to understand the passage of
Gleizes" painting from an epic, visionary (as opposed to 'visual) reality- to abstraction, it is important to under-
stand his early Cubist style and its differences from our traditional understanding of analytic Cubism. \^ e
have ahead}- discussed some of the thoughts stemming from abstract considerations of relationships that
intervened between appearances and the paintings of Gleizes and his friends. These involved the interaction
of vast space with speed and action, with simultaneous work, commerce, sport, and flight: with the modern
city- and the ancient country-, with the river, the harbor and the bridge and, above all. with time, for the sense
of time involving memory, tradition and accumulated cultural thought created the reality- of the w-orld.
In poetry-, this post-symbolist attempt to achieve new forms had to break decisively with the old
unities of time, place and action. Unity of scene did not correspond with the reality- of modem life; unity of
time did not correspond with the culturally known and anticipated effects of change. That is why Mercereau
(as Metzinger noted) H shifted his scenes so violently, why Barzun tried to solve the problem of simultaneously
developing lines of action by choral chanting. Similarly Gleizes and his painter friends sought to create a
vision free from introverted or obscure imagery which could treat collective and simultaneous factors. This
necessitated a new kind of allegory opposed to the old meaning which presented one thing as the symbolic
s
Jean Metzinger. '"Alexandre Mercereau", Vers et Prose. Paris, no. 27, October-December, 1911, p. 122.
'For a discussion of the Abbave. see Daniel Robbins. '"From Svmbolism to Cubism: the Abbave of Creteil", The Art
Journal, "Sinter, 1963-64, XXIII 2. pp. 111-116.
'"Roger AUard. "Au Salon d'Automne de Paris", V Art Libre, Lyon, October-Xovember, 1910.
"See Metzinger, op. cit.

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equivalent of another. A tentative precedent perhaps existed in Courbet' s Real Allegory which, however,
might have been considered an allegorical failure by Gleizes and Metzinger because Courbet "did not suspect
that the visible world only became the real world by the operation of thought."! 2
Modifications of one form by another are quite apparent, to be sure, but their relationships are made
even clearer by contemplation stimulated by \ision. The organic process of life and civilization, moving
irresistably toward harmonious interaction, was the subject of Gleizes' art. This subject was treated neither
as a confined symbolic allegory nor as a cultural background indicated by specific real appearance, but was
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instead presented in concrete and precise terms. Gleizes Harvest Threshing, the masterpiece of the Section
d'Or (no. 34), is not merely an anecdote in a scene. Rather, it is a multiple panorama celebrating the worker,
his material life and his collective activity in securing that life on a permanently changing land. Gleizes con-
fronts us not with one action or place, but with many: not with one time, but with past and future as well as
present.
In contrast to Picasso and Braque, Gleizes never set out to analyze and describe visual reality.
A mandolin, guitar, pipe or bow] of fruit all more or less neutral objects from daily Hfe could not satisfy
his complex idealistic concepts of true reality. He always stressed subjects of vast scale and of provocative
social and cultural meaning. He regarded the painting as the area where mental awareness and the real space
of the world could not only meet but also be resolved. The iconography of Gleizes, as of Delaunay, Le Faucon-
nier and Leger, helps to explain why there is no period in their work corresponding closely to the analytic
Cubism developed by Picasso and Braque. It also explains why it was possible for Gleizes and Delaunay to
become abstract painters, more theoretically sympathetic to Kandinsky and Mondrian than to Picasso,
Braque and Gris, who always remained associated with visual reality.
Given the already established principle that the space of the physical world is not the same as the
space of a picture plane and accepting the conviction that perception of the physical world is deformed by
the effects of distance, Gleizes' artistic concern was to reconstitute and synthesize the real world according
to his individual consciousness. A major factor in his process was the study of volumes utilized to convey the
known solidity and structure of objects, their weight, placement and effects upon each other. Add to this the
inseparability of form and color, the modifications in one causing changes to appear in the other (one of the
principal lessons of Cezanne) and we arrive at Gleizes' 1910-11 style of painting. Although forms are simpli-
fied and distorted, each shape and color modified by another, they are not splintered. Although his color is
sober, it is always rich, never grisaille.
Gleizes did not use the device (found in many works by Picasso and Braque) which involved
placement of the form in a shallow space, usually down the center of the canvas, the edges filled with a tex-
tured horizontal brushwork. sometimes modifying the composition into an elegant oval. Having always to
do with the synthetic treatment of a broad subject, no part of his canvas received less attention than another.
Consequently, Gleizes always had to grapple with the problem of getting into the picture plane, a search that
led him in 1913 to develop compositional innovations: broad, tilting planes that provide a transition from the
perimetric rectangle to the rotating forms at the heart of the painting.
Nothing testified more clearly that Gleizes was aware of the differences between his own interests
and those of Picasso and Braque than the article he wrote after seeing Picasso's work for the first time. lj
Having quoted Apollinaire's remarks 14 about a return to the grand principles of structure, color and in-
spiration, he wrote "that the very valuable [precieuses] indications of Picasso and Braque, in spite of every-
thing, did not depart from an impressionism of form which, nevertheless, they opposed to (an impressionism
'Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, Du Cubisme, Paris, 1912. The authors begin their work with a discussion of Courbet.
"Gleizes and Le Fauconnier are supposed to have met Picasso for the first time when Apollinaire introduced them in a bar,
Rue d'Antin, at the moment of the Salon d' Automne. 1911. They accompanied Picasso and Apollinaire to Kahnweiler's
gallery to look at Picasso's paintings. See: Gleizes, Souvenirs: see also Gleizes. "L'Epopee", Le Rouge et le S\oir, October,
1929, p. 63; see Golding, op. cit., p. 23: see Cabanne, L'Epopee, Paris, 1963, p. 163. Kahnweiler, however, in conver-
sation and in letters to the author, claims, to the best of his recollection, that Gleizes visited his gallery before this date.
"From the catalogue preface to the Brussels Independents, 1911, (see p. 16 supra).
18
Fig. 3. Albert Gleizes: THE CITY AND THE RIVER. 1913. Fig. 4. Albert Gleizes: THE CITY AND THE RIVER. 1913.
Catalogue no. 46. 86} X 73}" (220
Oil on canvas, X 187 cm.).
Whereabouts unknown.
of) color." !5 Gleizes considered the analytical Cubist works of Picasso and Braque. those fugues of intersecting
planes, as "an impressionism of form" because of the emphasis on relationships and rhythms set up by parts
of a dissected subject. He realized that they were quite distinct from his main concern which was to establish
weight, density and volumetric relationships among parts of a broad subject. Although Gleizes himself
characterized this phase of his work as an "analysis of volume relationships," it bears little similarity to the
traditional use of the word "analytical" in our understanding of Cubism.

In the little reviews and newspapers from pre- World War I Paris, Gleizes had always been identified
as one of the Cubist avant-garde. In the journals that chronicle the development of French modernism in
the twenties, he continued to hold a prominent place, but he was no longer identified with the avant-garde
because Cubism itself was no longer the avant-garde. Instead, it was regarded by some people as a freak, a
phenomenon that had passed, or it was looked upon by others merely as groundwork for the newer freedom
of Dada or the more specific program of Surrealism. Even after historians began their attempts to analyze
the obviously vital role played by Cubism, the name of Albert Gleizes was always mentioned because of his
early and important participation in the movement. Yet, by the thirties he came to be regarded as an anachro-
nism for, being alive and decidedly articulate, he had never ceased to call himself a Cubist and presumably
a Cubist he remained. Unlike Picasso, he had neither participated in Surrealism nor returned to reality. Nor
did he practice that most rational and ordered art, Neo-Plasticism. Although in many ways his theories were
close to those developed by Mondrian, his paintings never submitted to the discipline of primary colors and
the right angle ; they did not look Neo-Plastic. In fact, they looked like nothing else that was being done and
indeed, they were rarely seen in the art world because Gleizes deliberately held himself aloof from extensive
participation in the Paris scene. In the 1940's, after a decade of infrequent and generally negative criticism
from the accepted art press, he was actively taken up by a small group of Catholic intellectuals who regarded
]5
Albert Gleizes, "L'Art et ses representants, Jean Metzinger", La Revue Independant, no. 4, September, 1911, p. 164.
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him as something of a hero-saint. Criticism continued in this dual vein until his death: a puzzling artist
claimed and admired by a small group of dedicated followers, fervently respected by his few former pupils,
but almost ignored by influential critics for some thirty years.
The literature of Cubism, (as of all twentieth century painting) may be divided into two categories:
contemporary criticism and historical study the two overlapping and intermingling as our centurv advanced.
Serious historical study of Cubism, (distinct from criticism), began in the late 1920"s. Drawing at first from
sources of limited original data, chiefly the opinions of Apolliniare. it came to rely heavily on Der Weg zum
Kubismus. (published in 1920 although begun in 1915). an important book by Daniel Henry Kahnweiler,
which concentrated on the development of four Cubist painters. Picasso. Braque. Leger and Gris. Our tradi-
tional understanding of Cubism has evolved from Kahnweiler s discussion, which was based, to some extent,
on the ideas of Juan Gris 16 and the two major terms "analytical" and "synthetic", which subsequentlv emerged,
have been widely accepted since the mid-thirties 1 ". Both terms are historical impositions that occurred after
the facts they identify, for neither phase was so designated or explained at the time corresponding works
were being created. Their wide acceptance was at least partially due to an historical desire to give pattern and
continuity to the course of a painting tradition which by 1911 had been irrevocablv affected bv the Cubist
revolution. This, of course, does not invalidate our use of the words analytical and svnthetic but it does
suggest that a further examination of them might be well advised.
Analytical and synthetic, due to their clear applicability to the paintings of Picasso. Braque and
Gris. have long seemed to be perfectly acceptable descriptions of Cubism's development. By 1911. the shat-
tered planes of Braque and Picasso reached "analytical" pinnacles where the initial subjects were only hinted
at within the context of the new reality : the painting itself. T\ ith the introduction of collage, there emerged
a simplification resulting from the broader and flatter shapes of introduced fragments of reality which were
reconstituted into a new "synthetic" whole that was. in fact, an image of reality". In addition to the ruin phases
of Cubism the traditional -view also relies heavily on another pair of significant elements: the remarkable
Picasso painting, the Demoiselles d'Avignon and the influence of primitive, particularly African and Cata-
lonian. sculpture on the Cubist painters.
The most serious general objection to an historical tradition which regards the Demoiselles as the
origin of Cubism and. noting the evident influence of primitive art on it. as symptomatic of Cubism's relation-
ship to primitive form is that such deductions are unhistorical. Despite the tempting advantage of simplicity,
this familiar explanation fails to give adequate consideration to the complexities of a flourishing art that
existed just before and during the period when Picasso's new painting developed. More than fifty years later,
we are only beginning to examine the relationships between Cubism and contemporary developments in
Germany. Holland. Italy and Russia, where a self-conscious search for a new style was also causing rapid
changes in art. If we elect the Demoiselles as the beginning, we must forget that the Impressionists used the
double point of view or that the Symbolists (who admired Cezanne, too) flattened the picture plane, reducing
their subjects to simple geometrv. Y\ e find ourselves minimising the influence of Nee-Impressionist structure
and subject matter, not because we do not admire Seurat. but because we cannot see his preoccupations
reflected in the Demoiselles, (or in the subsequent work of Picasso and Braque). Similarly, by accepting the
simplified view of the Cubist revolution, we tend to neglect parallels in the development of literature and
social thought, turning to them only after 1911. after Cubism had become a recognized movement. Y\ e even
cut ourselves off from a satisfactorv explanation of Fau\ism. especially with regard to Braque's Fauve period
and its consequences for his Cubist activity.
These, brieflv. are some of the major objections that can immediately be raised to the dominant
historical view of Cubism as descending from the Demoiselles, as a system developed across analytic and
synthetic phases by Picasso and Braque and practiced only later by Gris and Leger. As a valuable interpreta-
16
See Daniel Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris: Sa T'ie. Son Oeuvre, Ses Ecrits. Paris, Gallimard. 1947. (English translation
by Douglas Cooper, New York. Valentin, 1947, pp. 144. 145). Gris" reply to the questionnaire "Chezles Cubistes". Bulletin
de la Vie Artistique, Paris, 6th year, no. 1, pp. 1517, January 1, 1925.
17
See Alfred H. Barr. Jr., Cubism and Abstract Art. New York, The Museum of Modern Art. 1936. pp. 29. 3112. 77-95.
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tion of these painters it has both validity and understanding but as historical analysis of the general develop-
ment of painting it is incomplete and misleading.

Certainly, it matters little what designation later historians apply to events. If Kahnweiler considers
Cubism as Picasso and Braque. our only fault is in subjecting other Cubists' works to the rigors of that
hmited definition. The contemporary historian should analyze other Cubist works, even if in the process a
qualifying adjective must be added to differentiate between branches of Cubism.

The traditional interpretation, formulated post facto to assist in an appreciation of the works of
Braque and Picasso, naturally has also affected our understanding of other twentieth centurv French painters.
But it is difficult to apply to men such as Delaunay. Gleizes. A illon. Metzinger. and Le Fauconnier. who
exhibit such fundamental differences from the traditional Cubist works that Kahnweiler even questions their
rigbt to be called Cubists at all. If the now historical interpretation is regarded as an ideal definition,
naturally these men will fall short of it. To suggest that merely because these artists developed differently or
varied from the traditional pattern they deserved to be relegated to a secondary or satellite role in Cubism
is a profound mistake. Similarly, it is foolish to assume that they did not understand Cubism's real meaning,
which traditionally had been defined \rithout an examiniation of their work. Clearly it would be useful to
examine their intentions, techniques and theories as carefully as we have those of Picasso and Braque, if
necessary adjusting or redefining our theories to take account of what we find.
Our theoretical understanding of Cubism has changed very little since the main interpretive fines
were first explored during the 1930s. Recent studies have gathered and sifted a quantity of important docu-
ments from the original period but this information has generally been fitted into the existing framework,
contributing many details but merely solidifying our extant comprehension of the movement.
The history of the very word "Cubism" illustrates the dangers inherent in our traditional approach
to the history of Cubism. Like the names of many other art movements, its general use was an accident. The
traditional approach stresses the fact that Matisse referred to cubes in connection with a Braque painting of
1908 and that the term was published twice by the critic Louis ^ auxcelles ls in a similar context. It is interesting
to observe, however, that Louis Chassevent, another critic, made a reference to Cubism as early as 1906 but.
since it was made in reference to Delaunay and Metzinger rather than to Picasso or Braque, its possible
significance has not been explored. 19 Recent studies have confirmed that the term did not come into anything
like general usage until 1911. and then mostly in connection with Gleizes, Metzinger. Delaunay and Leger.
If, in attaching special meaning to the word's history (as historians tend to do) one had sought to find prece-
dence in connection with Metzinger and Delaunay rather than with Picasso and Braque. Chassevent' s use of
the "cube" might have assumed the retrospective significance now attached to \ auxcelles' remarks. Thus.
the significance of the word itself is a matter of perspective for, in connection with a 1908 Braque, its general
acceptance as the "beginning" of Cubism seems to have occurred because it suited an historical framework
in which the historian deliberately sought evidence from an already specified direction. In contrast, recog-
nizing its 1906 usage and the context of its general acceptance in 1911 as the basis, a different historian would
be equally justified in identifying Cubism with the efforts of a second group of artists those who were suffi-
ciently products of their art-culture to fight their battles publicly in the traditional arena: the great salons.
In its earliest usage, the word was a rough characterization of the geometric appearance of certain
canvases. In 1911, Apollinaire accepted the term on behalf of a group of artists who had been invited to
exhibit at the Brussels Independants- and the following year. Gleizes and Metzinger wrote and published
Du Cubisme. an effort to dispel the confusion raging around the word. Clarifying their aims as painters, this
work was, in effect, the first definition of Cubism and it still remains the clearest and most intelligible. The
result not merelv of collaboration between its two authors but also of discussion bv the circle of artists who
' 3
Gil Bias, November 14. 1908: Gil Bias. May 25. 1909. See Golding, op cit., p. 20.
"Louis Chassevent, "Les Artistes Independants, 1906", Quelques Petits Salons. Paris, 1908, p. 32. Chassevent discussed
Delaunay and Metzinger in terms of Signacs influence, referring to Metzingers "precision in the cut of his cubes...'
20
See p. 16 for quotation.
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met in Puteaux and Courbevoie. it reflects the attitudes of the "artists of Passy", which included the Duchamp-
Villon brothers, to whom parts of it were read before publication.
Why did these artists evidently want so much to be understood? It was because they had arrived
at their art after a slow and meticulous search and did not relish (any more than had Manet or Cezanne) being
taken for madmen. Their visual ideas were susceptible to formulation and. conceiving art as a social function,
the authors felt a responsibility to articulate their eridently baffling painting. Such mental attitudes, while
perhaps not the stuff of novels, are readily understandable in men who grew up at the end of the nineteenth
century, imbued with optimism, believing that environment could be shaped, that life could be improved
and especially that art, affecting both environment and man. was destined to expand its role in the human
consciousness. The whole of the art and life of -Albert Gleizes testifies to his consistent attempt to realize those
aims. In examining his work especially in relation to the succeeding interests and influences it manifests
we discover, if not alternatives to the dominant attitude, at least valuable supplementary information.
Gleizes is a particularly good subject, for not only was he a fine artist but he was also a brilliant theoretician,
even philosopher, who left lucid and logical evidence of his self-conscious development. In Du Cubisme,
Gleizes and Metzinger pointed to their specific intentions when they wrote: "...let us admit that the reminis-
cence of natural forms cannot be banished in any event, not yet. An art cannot be raised to the level of pure
effusion at the first step." In 1912, however, that very year. Delaunay painted his simultaneous discs, in a
single unprecedented jump raising the epic subject to cosmic proportions, going far beyond Gleizes' Meudon
Landscape. 1911, and Metzinger's Port. But the audacity of Delaunay's synthesis of the sun and moon, day-
light and darkness in the whirl of his simultaneous discs had a parallel, perhaps even a source, in Barzun's
imagery from La Terrestre Tragedie, published by the Abbaye in 1907:

"In a single glance. I wrap up the earth:
Occident, Orient, both hemispheres all the globe!
Bathed in daylight and night."

For two years Gleizes meditated on the significance of what Delaunay had accompbshed against
all expectations. Expressing thoughts which led to the transformation of his owm art in 191415, Gleizes
wrote: "...In 1913 Delaunay defined the goal of Cubism... Behind that luxuriant color... one could realize
what Mallarme meant by "azure', the perception of plasticity in lime, perfect, final, circling, astronomical.
Delaunay played with moons and suns like a wondering child."21

Gleizes became obsessed by the search for plastic equivalents of the great themes which had ab-
sorbed him for so long but he also became convinced that for every combination of perceptions there was a
plastic truth. This development can almost be charted in his portraits of Florent Schmitt. In the 1915 Song
of War. (no. 71) the musician's features and movements were described, even though they were contracted
to forceful rhythms. But in the later version (no. 72) the figure itself has disappeared, replaced by a synthesis
of essential plastic equivalents of his physical reality. The Lorraine Pitcher (no. 75) and its preparatory water-
colors (no. 74) witness the same process and in a series of paintings of Toul, Gleizes experimented with the
plastic translation of one of his most cherished themes, the city which draws life from the river. His old
interests were intensified and pursued even when he came to America. The three Brooklyn Bridge paintings
are key examples. Similarly, his continuous development is documented by the 1917 painting Stunt Flying
which derives from the 1914 Acrobats. In the earlier work, three trapezists are frozen in flight, suspended in
a specifically described circus environment. In Stunt Flying, however, imitated forms are abolished, replaced
by soaring rhythm, the exultant sensations of height and velocity. This synthesis of controlled kinesthetic
action within a given experience is achieved without the methodology of simultaneous -news, without facetting
or fragmentation, even without Gleizes' own technique of volumetric relationships.
21
ALbert Gleizes, Robert Delaunay, an unpublished manuscript prepared for Abstraction-Creation in 1933, revised in 1937
and 1945.
22
Between 1914 and 1917, Gleizes' evolution was not marked by absolute consistency, for the artist
did not conceptually lead his painting toward unshakeable convictions. His w'ork was always directly engaged
with environment, especially an unfamiliar one. Thus, his 1916 voyage to Spain resulted in a number of ob-
viously Spanish paintings, (no. 104) hot and exuberant 2 - (as well as in a lost Sailboat painting, more consonant
with the general course of his development in synthetic abstraction) and few of his paintings are as sensual
and immediate as those of Bermuda in which a Cezannesque concern for light-modified forms and his con-
sistent diagonal brushwork overcome any conceptual efforts. Gleizes' concern for human and social values,
the very basis of both his subject matter and his individual plastic treatment, did not diminish as his style
developed certainty. On the contrary, it increased and at one point, judging by a sudden reduction of his
activity in 1918, it even seems to have threatened his life as an artist. Li\ing in the most modern city in the
world, the very epitome of collective life, he was alternately exhilarated by its energy and depressed by its
industrial conformity, its monotonous production of drab, tasteless shapes. This experience of the "future"
occurred at the very moment when he was writing about the need to subordinate individual ego to the greater
life of the group in L'Art dans V Evolution Generate, and was still optimistic about the course of events in
Russia. He was torn apart by conflicting forces; his cherished ideals were all but contradicted by a maddening
reality.
These conflicts doubtless contributed to an unforeseen experience which took place in the summer of
1918 at the Gleizes" rented house in Pelham. New York. One afternoon. Albert Gleizes came to his wife and
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said,
"A terrible thing has happened to me: I believe I am finding God. "23 This new religious conviction resulted
not from any mystical visions but instead from Gleizes' rational confrontation of three urgent problems
collective order, individual differences and the painter's role. Although Gleizes did not join the Church until
1941. his next twenty-five years were spent in a logical effort not only to find God but also to have faith. The
many-levelled struggle was enacted on the plane of painting, supported by writing and by the manner in which
he chose to organize his life. To him, all human activity was inextricably interrelated and he believed that in the
post-war w-orld the principles once thought to be the foundations of society were exhausted, no longer valid.
"...In all the spheres of the human spirit, there w as not one where night was so solidly entrenched as in
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art. It
was an ivory tower, it spoke a strange language, unintelligible to those wiio lived in the world . . . The Artist [had
become] a curious being, an anarchist, a product of spontaneous generation, a being apart from the crowd." 24
His dissatisfaction with the old system and with the anarchy of art led Gleizes toward a passionate
pursuit for an absolute order. His self-discipline was extreme, including even renunciation of the broad and
powerful touch so characteristic of all his previous painting. The ehmination of bewitching textures, surface
variations and sensual paint were the clearest sacrifices his own painterly ego could make; plastic interest
would henceforth reside in the relationships among forms and shapes, relationships that would communicate
the austere essentials usually clouded by appearances. The most disciplined works from the twenties do not
produce the tenderest results but, although achieving their effects by color and form alone, Gleizes retained
even in their extreme austerity a more varied pallette than any of his contemporaries: violets, pinks and
yellows acting on each other. He regarded as false and pernicious the distinction between easel painting and
decoration, developed and sustained for so long only because of the pretensions of class society. Thus, in his
effort to abolish that distinction, he created paintings like In the City and Along the Avenue, preliminaries
to an enormous project for the Gare de M(oscow) wliich, of course, was never realized. 25 Yet, even as he
"Such a work also reveals in a direct fashion the influence of early training in his father's design atelier.
"Juliette Roche Gleizes, Memoirs, to be published soon. See also J. R. G., "La Belle Journee est Passee". Zodiaque, no. 25,
April, 1955, p. 34.
24
Albert Gleizes, L'Art dans V Evolution Generate, unpublished manuscript, written in New York, 1917.
25
The project for the Gare de M is in the collection of the Musee de Grenoble.
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purged his art of textures, his color doubled its intensity and his own personality persistently cropped up in
vigorous and unique patterns bars, dots, hatchings and curves, intersections and reverses.
During the early twenties, Gleizes' conscious cultivation of certain subjects at the expense of others
became a factor increasingly vital to his artistic developments. In the works from 1914 through the end of
the New York period, paintings without subject and paintings with an evident visual basis exist side by side,
their difference in degree of abstraction hidden by the uniformity with which they were painted and by the
constant effort to tie the plastic realization of the painting to a specific, even unique, experience. In the absence
of his individual reflexes, these unique references no matter how neutral seem less and less in accord with
the generalized nature of his austere, flat painting style.
Throughout the decade, Gleizes tried to reconcile the meaning of life and the universality of painting
with the particular image, the source of each work's visual idea. Extending and clarifying his older value
distinctions about subjects, he concluded during the twenties that a painting which dwelled wholly on essential
rhythms (an object total in itself) was more universal and therefore superior to a painting which retained
reminiscences of subjective, individual perception. Thus, although still life, derived from a specific and limited
subject, had little universality, any reasoned construction even an imaginary still life was more ideal and
hence represented a higher reality. Gleizes was approaching abstraction conceptually rather than visually and
his intricate dialectic caused him, in 1924, to produce two amusing paintings which departed from his usual
subject matter: the Imaginary Still Lifes, Blue and Green. In effect, Gleizes would have inverted Courbet's
"Show me an angel and I will paint you an angel" to be "As long as an angel remains an unembodied ideal
and cannot be shown to me, I'll paint it."'
These years, during which Gleizes developed his consistent liierarchy of values, also witnessed
critical changes in the artist's life. By 1919 the unity of the Cubist movement, the pre-war sense of common
effort, had been totally shattered. Paris was dominated by a strong reaction against those dreams of revolu-
tionary construction and common effort which Gleizes continued to cherish, while the avant-garde was char-
acterized by the anarchic and, to him, destructive spirit of Dada. 26 Neither alternative held any appeal for
him and, with the Salons once again dominated by conservative painters 2 ^, his old hostility to the city was
constantly nourished. Although supported by Archipenko and Braque, an attempt to revive the spirit of the
Section a"Or failed. Similarly, an effort to organize an artists' cooperative received the support of Delaunay,
but of no other major painters.
Gleizes, although he had enjoyed considerable prestige both as a man and a painter, gradually be-
came alienated from the Paris art world. Like the ideal protagonists in a Henry James novel, he and Madame
Gleizes had enough independent income to pursue their goals without bowing to material considerations,
remaining unfettered by the realities that made such heavy demands on many other artists. The Gleizes spent
more and more time in the country, at Serrieres, Madame Gleizes' family home, or at Cavalaire, then an even
quieter spot on the Riviera. Becoming involved with people more sympathetic to his social ideas28 ? he was
active in the Union Intellectuelle and lectured extensively in France. Germany. Poland and England. He
continued to write and in 1924 the Bauhaus. (where certain ideals analogous to his own were practiced)
requested a new book on Cubism 2 ^

Gleizes' ideals of a social art. so severely contradicted by the epoch, were nonetheless constant and
in 1927, he founded the commune of Moly-Sabata, a second Utopian colony idealistically related to the Abbaye
26
See Gleizes, "L' Affaire dada", Action, Paris, no. 3, April, 1920, pp. 26-32. Reprinted in English in Robert Motherwell,
ed., Dada Painters and Poets, New York, 1951, pp. 298-302.
27
Gleizes painted an ironic and naturalistic canvas of bathers in 1919, entitling it Homage to the Salon d'Automne.
Between 1920 and 1926 Gleizes and Charles Henry became close friends and intended to write a book together on Art
28
and Science. See Gleizes, "Charles Henry et fe Vitaiisme", in Cahiers de I'Etoile, Paris, no. 13. Januaiv-Februarv, 1930,
pp. 112-128.
29
Albert Gleizes, Kubismus, Bauhausbiicher 13, Munich, Albert Langen Verlag, 1928.
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de Creteil. Obstinately refusing to recognize practical difficulties, Gleizes established this miniature society
deliberately to counterbalance the centripetal pressures of modern life. Into this venture he poured energy,
money and all his hope. Planned as a community of artists who were to support themselves by artisan produc-
tion and agriculture, Moly-Sabata did manage to survive until 1951, although for many years especially
during World War II it functioned almost purely because of the remarkable dedication of an Australian
woman named Anne Dangar.30 The relatively long life of Moly-Sabata was due more to the strength of her
commitment than to the general workability of such a semi-agrarian scheme at a time of greater and greater
centralization and industrialization.
Concurrent with the establishment of Moly-Sabata, where art was created as a metier and where
craftsmanship, agriculture and other activities were placed within the rhythm of daily life, Gleizes embarked
on a systematic examination of the art forms of other cultures. In his book La Forme et VHistoire, Celtic,
Romanesque and Oriental forms particularly were studied for their innate and unselfconscious presentation
of what he considered to be the fundamental basis of human life. From these studies he concluded that all
form derived from human movement, from the kinesthetic sense of man in space, and that all human activity
bred form. Architecture was the supreme plastic activity, for it was the most spiritual and socially organized.
The natural cadence of life had never been expressed more fruitfully than in Romanesque art, where painting
and sculpture were so naturally adjusted to architecture, and that period was to Gleizes a dazzling ideal.
Consciously drawing on traditions that he recognized to be Xllth century. Gleizes exposed himself not only
to the exhaustion of his financial resources in Moly-Sabata but also, more cruelly, to the charge of extreme
reaction. Unfortunately, Moly-Sabata's program of "a return to the earth" later became one of the principal
slogans of Marshal Petain's Vichy government and this ironic mental association, coupled with the Gleizes'
long-standing (and intensely sincere) pacifism and work for European unity, eventually led to an understand-
able bitterness among those who were active in the French resistance.
For a time, in 1928-29, his own painting suffered. One suspects that although this was partly due
to a lack of practice it also resulted from a too literal search for the rhythms of the Romanesque (seen in a
group of religious paintings related to his studies of Autun and St. Savin) and the practical needs of an ideal:
he wanted walls to decorate. A completely non-objective 1924 mural project 31 had been rejected because it
was incomprehensible. Similarly, his murals for the church of St. Blanche de Serrieres, in spite of the icono-
graphy depicting the Descent from the Cross, were again rejected as incomprehensible. The Church he so
admired could not see the spiritual values of his curves and planes! Indeed, only once did he get an op-
portunity to realize a large religious mural and it came only in 1951 when he was too old to do much of the
execution himself. In a pediment high above the altar in the Jesuit Chapel of Les Fontaines at Chantilly, 32
Gleizes' design for the Eucharist ironically concedes more iconography in title than in specific form.
In La Forme et VHistoire, Gleizes had subordinated iconography to plastic activity and as he resumed
almost feverish painting activity in 1931 his energies were absorbed in the large abstract Paintings for
Contemplation. His relatively brief plunge into Scholasticism had naturally strengthened his old hierarchy
of values but the key to his entire effort is found in his illustrations for Blaise Pascal's Pensees. Executed in
1949-50, toward the end of Gleizes' fife, these etchings deliberately reviewed bis entire artistic and human
career. The Pensees have for centuries provided philosophical insights into almost all of the ultimate problems
of life: the sufficiency of reason, the verifiability of experience, the plausibility of revelation, the exercise of
free will. It is perhaps the noblest effort in Western literature to reconcile faith with reason, to reconcile
significant human activity with the eternity of Catholicism.
30
Originally a painting student of Gleizes', Miss Dangar under his influence became a superb potter, a true disciple of his
social ideafs and a sincere extension of his artistic consciousness, adapting his art to ceramics and participating selflessly
often under heartbreakingly difficult material conditions in the rural community fife of Isere.
31
For the Ecole du Pharmacie, Paris.
32
See Albert Gleizes, "L'Esprit de ma f'resque 'L'Eucharistie'", V Atelier de la Rose, Lyon, March, 1953.
25
It is from these etchings that we learn the titles of Gleizes' first Painting for Contemplation, (no.
147). a horizontal composition in which the circular movements of earlier more sensual works are reconciled
with the austere manner characteristic of his painting of the twenties. From the Pascal we can also trace
Gleizes' intellectual iconography, the meanings that he attached to other works. Thus, the nature of the
central element in the Painting with Seven Elements (no. 151) is revealed as a variation on the theme "Gran-
deur of Man", (see no. 177). Furthermore, the complex development of Gleizes' attitude toward perception
and unique experience is traced through works like the 191419 circus theme pictures, which in Pascal are
divertissements. Reprises of these paintings are juxtaposed ~ith Pascal texts that demonstrate why man can-
not remain idle, for he then falls into a melancholy helplessness, realizing his own misery.
Above all. in the Gleizes illustrations to Pascal, we find a conscious explanation for the painter's
final style change which, in the mid-thirties, gradually allowed the austere matte surfaces to metarnorphize
into an exuberant freedom of application and reintroduction of brushwork. even while keeping the sense of
structure and control achieved by his earlier ascetic discipline. The result is the most lyrical work of the
artist's career. \^ ith the reintroduction of fluid parallel brushstrokes, serving the double function of texture
and cross-rh> thms. his paintings of the late thirties point toward the perfect ease, the lyricism of his last
paintings. This development is sequential both visually and in terms of Gleizes' intellectual growth.
His post-Cubist style of the twenties flat, forthright, uncompromising is virtually Pascal's
"Spirit of Geometry". His style of the late thirties, matured in the Meditation series of the forties, is Pascal's
"Spirit of Finesse", the product of a nimbly discerning mind. The first is reason and the second is faith,
originally in opposition to each other but ultimately reconciled.
The "Spirit of Geometry" (exemplified by Pascal's mathematical approach and Gleizes' ascetic
period) is coolly reasoned. In painting, the shapes are intellectually, if also elegantly, arranged and they
represent the structural principles of reality manifest in the solution of pictorial problems. The "Spirit of
Finesse", however, as in the Paintings for Meditations (see especially no. 168). produces shapes that have
opened, like a rose relaxing into bloom, creating fullness, grace and a more liquid movement which suffused
the picture plane. In his final paintings Gleizes surrendered pure reason to the back of his consciousness and
returned (with delight) to the pleasures of paint. Paint was his faith and theory was Iris reason: and after years
of struggle, the two could coexist, complementing and nourishing each other.
Gleizes' individual development, his unique struggle to reconcile forces, made him one of the few
painters to come out of Cubism with a wholly individual style, undeflected by later artistic movements. Al-
though he occasionally returned to earlier subjects (for example, in 1943 he did a new version of the Compo-
sition with Seven Elements), these later works were treated anew, on the basis of fresh insights. He never
repeated his earlier styles, never remained stationery, but always grew more intense, more passionate.
Albert Gleizes is perhaps the only painter of our century to have consciously struggled between
the demands of reason and faith, in a reasonable indeed a brilliant manner and finally to have come down
on the side of faith. Like PascaL it is possible to regard him as an apologist for intellectual orthodoxy but it
is also possible to regard him as a lucid sceptic who consistently demonstrated that no firm decisions are
possible in any area of human activity. He was a metaphysician in an age that wanted not only to reject meta-
physics but to deny the relevance of its unanswerable questions. For Gleizes, such a denial was equivalent to
denying the grandeur of Man. His life ended in 1953 but his paintings remain to testify to his willingness to
struggle for final answers. His is an abstract art of deep significance and meaning, paradoxically human even
in his verv search for absolute order and truth.
CATALOGUE
Except for certain works which are juxtaposed beside the final
versions to which they relate, entries in this catalogue are chrono-

logical. References to literature and exhibitions under each heading
are abbreviated, and may be found in detad in the documentation
section which follows the catalogue.
VIEW OF PARIS TOWARD MONTMARTRE. 1901. THE M\RKET AT COURBEVOIE. 1905.

(VUE DE PARIS VERS MONTMARTRE). (LE MARCHE A COURBEVOIE).
Oil on canvas, 21 x 25i" (53,5 x 65 cm.). Oil on canvas, 21 i x 25+" (54 x 65 cm.).
Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 1901". Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 05".
Lent by Rex de C. Nan Kive.ll, London. Lent by Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.
Exhibitions: Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1906,
An interest in epic subject matter, here the modern city set in sur- no. 565.
rounding countryside, was already manifest in 1901, the first year Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 2.
that Gleizes began to paint seriously. Although clearly related to Literature: Albert Gleizes: Hommage. Lyon, 1954, p. 127.
Pissarro in technique, the particular point of view as well as the derotjdille, R. "Albert Gleizes au Musee de Lyon",
composition and conception of this canvas is a departure from the Bulletin des Musees de Lyon, no. 1, 1956, p. 11.
style of late Impressionism. The density- with which it is painted

and its solid framework suggest affinities with Pointdlism which Gleizes' affinity with Pissarro was particularly marked in scenes of
were often noted by early critics. city life.
THE BRIDGE OF NEUILLY IN THE RAIN. 1901.

6. THE CHURCH NEAR THE ABBEY OF CRETEIL. 1908.
(LE PONT DE NEUILLY). (L'EGLISE, SOUVENIR DE L'ABBAYE DE CRETEIL).
Ink, 133 x 11" (34 x 28 cm.).
Oil on canvas, 21 x 25+" (53,5 x 65 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1901". Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1908 L'Eglise, l'Ab-
Lent by Commandant Georges Houot, La Fleche, France. baye de Creteil 1908".

Lent by Walter Firpo, Marseilles.
In one of several night scenes executed between 1901 and 1903,

Gleizes balances bis concern for social activity with a study of
The taut surface of this drawing, completed just before the dissolu-
tion of the idealistic Abbaye, possibly results from a reworking in
atmosphere and motion.
the early forties.
3. THE MARKET AT ABBEVILLE. 1903.

CHURCH AT CRETEIL (EGLISE A CRETEIL). 1908.
(LE MARCHE D'ABBEVILLE).
Oil on canvas, 551 x 40" (141 x 101,5 cm.).
Oil on canvas, 281 x 23+/' (73 x 60 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1908".
Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes, Abbeville, 1903".
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Exhibition: Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 10.
Exhibitions: Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 1.
The landscapes from the Creteil period show an increasing concern

During his years of military service in Picardy and the north, for solidity, a much broader handling of the paint, and a careful
Gleizes' style again moved closer to Impressionism.
balancing of rhythms, foreshadowing what would develop into one
of Gleizes' paramount concerns. The man in the foreground is
probably Dr. Morinaud, later the subject of The Man on the Bal-
PICARDY (PAYSAGE PICARD). 1904. cony (no. 32).
Oil on canvas, 21+ xl8" (54,5 x45,5 cm.).
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Albert Gleizes, Picardie, 1904".
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. CANAL BOATS ON THE SEINE. 1908.
(PENICHES SUR LA SEINE).
Although Gleizes became increasingly concerned with light and color Oilon canvas, 21 i x 25i" (54 x65 cm.).
effects, his early interest in views over enormous distances never- Signed and dated l.r.-"Albert Gleizes 1908".
theless continued. Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
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Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 13. By treating the sky in geometric terms and by modifying curves to
Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 4. become sharper, slightly angled lines, Gleizes began to hold his
compositions consistently to the surface plane. His awareness of
Unraodelled areas of bright color appear in a 1903 Still Life of Cezanne is here more evident, even in the handling of paint.
Flowers (in his sister's collection at La Fleche), but Gleizes does not
seem to have explored these possibilities further until early in 1908
when works such as this show affinities to Fauve painting. 14. PARIS (LES QUAIS). 1908.
Ink, 12 xl6+" (30,5x42 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 08".
PARIS FROM THE SEINE (BORD DE RIVIERE). 1908. Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Oil on canvas, 21i x25i" (54 x65 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 08". Preliminary drawing for no. 15.
Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 4.
Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 5.
15. PARIS (LES QUAIS). 1910.
Oil on canvas, 21 x25i" (53,5 x65 cm.).
Gleizes' Fauve-like period was brief, lasting only a few months, and
even when his paint was thickest and color brightest, his concern Lent by Professor and Mrs. Milton Handler, New York.
for structural rhythms and simplification was dominant. Provenance : George Moos, Geneva.
He converted older drawings (no. 14) into new paintings, sub-

10. LANDSCAPE IN THE PYRENEES MOUNTAINS. 1908.
ordinating his former concern for social activity to his fresh interest
(PAYSAGE DANS LES PYRENEES). in construction. Here, an overall rose tonality was employed to
Oil on canvas, 20J x25+" (53 x65 cm.).
counter the illusion of depth.
Signed and dated l.r. "A. Glezies 1908".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Provenance: Gift, Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1963.
16. HOUSES AMONG TREES. 1910.
Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 2 (as
(MAISONS DANS LES ARBRES).
Paysage a, la couleur simplifiee).
Oil on canvas, 44J x60|" (113,5 xl54 cm.).
Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 3.
Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 12.
Lent by Madame Alb Gleizes, Paris.
Exhibitions: Exposition Universelle, Lyon, 1914.
Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 3.
Pictures by Crotti, Duchamp, Gleizes, Metzinger,
Montross Gallery, New York, 1916, no. 29.

Gleizes spent several summers in Gascony where he painted this
key work in which the process of geometric simplification (more

In this work, Gleizes attempted to consolidate his recent advances
akin to Pont Aven and Nabi principles than to Cezanne) is well
with the older Picardy landscape theme (no. 4), in order to find the
advanced. The painting also bears a marked affinity to the work of
underlying principles that organize a vast scene.
Le Fauconnier, although the two artists had not yet become friends.
11. DONKEY CARTS. 1908.

17. BY THE SEINE (BORD DE LA SEINE, MEUDON). 1909.
(CHARETTES A BAGNERES DE BIGORRE). Pencil and ink, 9i xl2i" (23,5 x31 cm.).
Watercolor, 9i x 123" (24 x 32,5 cm.). Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 09".
Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 08 B. de. B." Lent by Walter Firpo, Marseilles.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia.
18. ROAD, TREES AND HOUSES. 1910.
12. LANDSCAPE NEAR BAGNERES DE BIGORRE. 1909. (ENVIRONS DE MEUDON).

(ENVIRONS DE BAGNERES DE BIGORRE). Pencil, crayon and watercolor, 9i x 12 i" (23,5 x31 cm.).
Ink, 11 xl7" (28 x43 cm.). Signed and dated 1.1. "A. Gleizes 1910".
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes pres de B. de Bigorre 09" Lent by Walter Firpo, Marseilles.
During his 1909 trip to Gascony, Gleizes concentrated exclusively 19. THE TREE (L'ARBRE). 1910.
on landscape, reducing the forms of nature to primary shapes. Oil on canvas, 36 x28i" (91,5 x72,5 cm.).
Private Collection, Paris.
13. WALLED CITY (VILLE FORTIFIEE). 1909-10. Exhibitions: Salon des Independents , Paris, 1910, no. 2160.
Oilon canvas, 21i x 25i" (54 x 65 cm.). Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 34.
Signed l.r. "Alb Gleizes". Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 33.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried Ullmann, Palm Beach, Florida. Trente Ans d'Art Independant, Grand Palais, Paris,
Provenance: Private Collection, Wisconsin. 1926.
Andre Emmerich, New York. Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 6.
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Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 2. The effort to grasp the intricate rhythms of a panorama resulted in
Le Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, a comprehensive geometry of intersecting and overlapping forms
1953, no. 35. which created a new and more dynamic quality of movement.
Depuis Bonnard, Musee National d'Art Moderne,
Paris, 1960-61.
Von Bonnard bis Heute, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 23. LANDSCAPE AT MEUDON (PAYSAGE, MEUDON). 1911.
1961. Oil on canvas, 57j x45i" (147 xll5 cm.).
Literature: Albert Gleizes, 50 Ana, Lyon, 1947, pi. 2.
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1911"; on reverse: "Paysage,
gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950, Albert Gleizes, 1911".
p. 208. Lent by Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris.
habasque, G. Cubism, Geneva, 1959. Exhibitions: Les Independants, Brussels, 1911, no. 88, (as Le
Chemin).
In this work, one of Gleizes' most important paintings of the crucial Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 39.
year 1910, we see the artist's volumetric approach to Cubism and Paintings from the Musee National d'Art Moderne,
his successful union of a broad field of vision with a flat picture Paris, American circulating exhibition, 1957-58.
plane. Earlier studies, such as nos. 17, 18, clearly anticipate this Literature: dorival, b. The School of Paris in the Musee d'Art
development. Moderne, New York, 1962, p. 148, ill.
golding, j. Cubism, London, 1959, pp. 150-159.
20. PORTRAIT OF R. G. [LEIZES]. 1910. Man is reintroduced, but subordinated to the heroic concept of
Oilon canvas, 55i x44" (140 xll2 cm.). landscape which simultaneously comprehends the close and the
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 10". distant, the earth's curve, the sun, even the force of wind against
Private Collection, Paris. trees.
Literature: gleizes, a. Tradition et Cubisme, Paris, 1927, p. 32.
In his Souvenirs Gleizes wTote of the debt he owed to Le Faucon-

24. PORTRAIT OF MADAME BARZUN. 1911.
nier, especially to the 1909 Portrait of P. J. Jouve. In 1910, Gleizes'
Oil on canvas, 39 x28", (99 x71 cm.).
painting of his uncle, Robert, and Le Fauconnier's Portrait of Paul
Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 1911".
Castiaux, the co-editor of Les Bandeaux d'Or, show these two
Lent by Jacques Barzun, New York.
artists working in strikingly similar styles (cf. figs. 1, 2, p. 15).
Exhibition: Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949.
Literature: gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
p. 207.
21. WOMAN WITH PHLOX (LA FEMME AU PHLOX). 1910.
Oilon canvas, 31 J x39+" (81 xlOO cm.).
Begun in the spring, this portrait was never finished, for after the
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 10".
summer Gleizes realized that his intervening stylistic development
Lent by Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York.
made it impossible to complete the portrait in a homogeneous style.
Exhibitions: Salon des Independants, Paris, 1911, no. 2612.
Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 35.
International Exhibition of Modern Art (The

Armory Show), New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913,
25. SKETCH FOR "PORTRAIT OF JACQUES NAYRAL". 1910.
no. 195.
(ETUDE POUR NAYRAL).
Ink, 20x15" (51 x38cm.).
Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 5.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 10", inscribed "2eme des etudes
Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 4.
pour le portrait de Jacques Nayral, expose au Salon d'Automne
Le Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris,
1911".
1953, no. 37.
Twentieth Century Masters, Marlborough Gallery,
London, 1955, no. 21.
Albert Gleizes, Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956,
no. 8. 26. SKETCH FOR "PORTRAIT OF JACQUES NAYRAL". 1911.
Literature: gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950, (TETE DE NAYRAL).

p. 208. Oil on canvas, 25i x21i" (65 x54 cm.).
golding, J. Cubism, London, pp. 150-151. Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 11".
Continuing his new interest in the figure, Gleizes strove to manip- Exhibitions: Art Contemporain, Paris, 1911, no. 36.
ulate a genre subject with the same sobriety and broad scale that Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912, no. 17.
had always informed his landscapes. Thus, exterior nature is here Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 8.
brought into a room and the distant vista seen through the window Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 6.
is formally resolved with a corresponding interior shape.
27. PORTRAIT OF JACQUES NAYRAL. 1911.

22. LANDSCAPE (PAYSAGE). 1911. Oilon canvas, 70 J x51i" (180 xl30 cm.).
Oil on canvas mounted on board, 28 x36i" (71 x91,5 cm.). Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1911".
Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 11". Lent by Commandant Georges Houot, La Fleche, France.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Morton G. Neumann, Chicago. Exhibitions: Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1911, no. 609.
Exhibition: Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912, no. 16, (frontis- Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 38.
piece).
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Les Maitres de V Art Independant, Petit Palais, Paris, XIX and XX Century European Masters, Marlbo-
1937, no. 17. rough Gallery, London, 1957, no. 44.
Le Cubisme, Musee National a" Art Moderne, Paris, Literature: gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
1953, no. 64. p. 208.
II Bienal, Sao Paulo, 1953, no. 16. gleizes, a., "L'Epopee", Le Rouge et le Noir, Octo-
Literature: gleizes, a. "L'Epopee", Le Rouge et le Noir, Octo- ber, 1929, p. 71.
ber, 1929, p. 64.

apollinaire, G. L 'Intransigeant, October 10, 1911. This painting is derived from a 1909 brush and ink drawing titled
La
(cf. Chroniques d'Art, 1960, p. 199). Menagere in the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon. The drawing,
emphasizing curvilinear patterns, is an important link in Gleizes'
In 1910 Gleizes began this portrait of his old friend, Jacques Nayral, development from symbolist-derived forms to the volumetric
the young author-dramatist who two years later married Mireille Cubism of this work. It is particularly interesting to see the adapta-
Gleizes. Nayral, a partisan of the synthetic-social ideas of the tion of an earlier subject to the structural style of 1911.
Abbaye, was editor-in-chief for the publishing house of Figuiere,

and directly responsible for the publication of Gleizes and Metzin-
ger's Du Cubisme as well as for Apollinaire's Les Peintres Cubistes 30. THE BATHER (BAIGNEUSE). 1912.
and the projected series Tous les Arts. This work, in which the Oil on canvas, 24 xl5" (61 x38 cm.).
background shows Gleizes' Courbevoie garden, stylistically fulfills Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 12".
the direction established in the unfinished portrait of Mme. Barzun. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Michigan.
Provenance: Earl Stendahl, Hollywood, California.
Theodore Schempp, Paris.
Exhibitions: Moderne Kunst Kring, Amsterdam, 1912, no. 113.

28. THE HUNT (LA CHASSE). 1911.
Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne, Rouen,
Oil on canvas, 48i x38i" (123 x98 cm.).
1912, no. 92.
Signed l.r. "Albert Gleizes".
Winston Collection, The Cranbrook Academy of
Lent by Edouard Labouchere, Paris.
Arts Museum, 1951.
Provenance Rene : Jaffe, Brussels.
Winston Collection, University of Michigan Museum,
Exhibitions: Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1911, no. 610.
1955.
Jack of Diamonds, Moscow, 1912.
The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Win-
Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 37.
ston, Detroit, Institute of Arts, Virginia Museum of
Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, The Milwaukee
1953, no. 64 bis.
Art Institute, 1957-58, no. 45.
Les Soirees de Paris, Galerie Knoedler, Paris, 1958,
no. 13.
This study, developed in connection with the large Bathers (no. 31),
Les Chefs d'Oeuvres des collections privees francaises,
is related to a 1910 painting. Nude, (present whereabouts un-
Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1961, no. 51.
known) and represents an effort to fuse classical subjects to new
methods.
Literature: apollinaire, g. L' Intransigeant, October 10, 1911.
(cf. Chroniques d'Art, 1960, p. 199).
granie, j. "Au Salon d'Automne", Revue d Europe

31. THE BATHERS (LES BAIGNEUSES). 1912.
et d'Amerique, Paris, October, 1911.
Oil on canvas, 41i 67" (105 xl70 cm.).
Cahiers d 'Albert Gleizes, Lyon, 1957 (frontispiece).
dorival, B. Les Peintres du XXe siecle, Paris, 1957,
Lent by Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
p. 76.
Exhibitions: Salon des Independants , Paris, 1912, no. 1347.
Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 36.
Here Gleizes not only created a synthetic landscape, in which ele-
Trente Ans d'Art Independant, Grand Palais, Paris.
ments are placed in unreal but symbolic relationships to each other,
1926, no. 1057.
but also created a synthesis of social experience, showing two Les Createurs du Cubisme, Paris, 1935, no. 31.
distinct types of human use of the land. Le Fauconnier painted a Les Maitres de I'Art Independant 1895-1937, Petit
similar subject the following year. Dorival has suggested that the Palais, Paris, 1937, no. 6.
treatment of the horses may well be an important source for those
Literature: apollinaire, g. Le Petit Bleu, March 20, 1912 (cf.
of Duchamp-Villon in 1914. Chroniques d'Art, 1960, p. 230).
bonfante, e. and Ravenna, j. Arte Cubista con "les

Meditations Esthetiques sur la Peinture" di Guil-
29. THE KITCHEN (LA CUISINE). 1911. laume Apollinaire, Venice, 1945, no. LVIII.
Oil on canvas, 46 J x37l" (118,5 x94,5 cm.). Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Catalogue-
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes". Guide, Paris, 1961.
Exhibitions: Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 36. In The Bathers (as in Delaunay's City of Paris, 1912 and, to a lesser
Moderni Umeni, S.V.U. Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 34. extent, in Metzinger's Meudon Landscape, 1913), certain elements
Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 7. from modern industrial life are sharply contrasted with the classical
Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 3. presence of the nudes, yet the relationships are formally resolved.
Le Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, This optimistic reconciliation of traditional harmony with con-
1953, no. 64 ter. temporary life was an aspect of simultaneity that was of particular
Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956, no. 9. concern to the Passy group of Cubists.
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32. THE MAN ON THE BALCONY. 1912. This work, with Delauney's City of Paris, is the largest and most
(L'HOMME AU BALCON). ambitious Cubist painting undertaken up to this point (1912). It
Oil on canvas, 77 x4Si" (195 xll5 cm.). summarizes Gleizes' interests, presenting an epic panorama of
Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 12". mountains, valleys, clouds and smoke, towns, workers and wheat,
Lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter a simultaneous celebration of the harvest, nature and man in
Arensberg Collection. idealistic harmony. The painting is Gleizes' parallel to Le Faucon-

Provenance : Arthur Jerome Eddy. nier's Abundance, and it seems likely that it takes its theme not
Walter C. Arensberg. merely from the social and synthetic program of the Abbaye de
Exhibitions: Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912, no. 689. Creteil, but specifically from the long poem of Henri Martin Barzun,
International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Ar- La Montagne, poeme legendaire, the 5th part of La Terrestre Tra-
mory Show), New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913, no. gedie (Paris, Mercure de France, 1908): "Les Moissonneurs dans les
196. Epis, armes de faux et de faucilles..." (pp. 49-56).
Literature: eddy, a. j. Cubists and Post Impressionism, Chicago,

1914.
wright, w. H. Modern Painting, Its Tendency and
35. CHARTRES CATHEDRAL. 1912.
Meaning, New York, London, 1915.
(LA CATHEDRALE DE CHARTRES).
ozenfant and jeanneret. La Peinture Moderne,
Oil on canvas, 28 x23" (72,5 x60 cm.).
Paris, 1924, p. 93.
gleizes, A. "L'Epopee", Le Rouge et le Noir, Octo-
Lent by Stadtische Galerie im Landesmuseum, Hannover.
ber, 1929, p. 68.
Provenance: Mme. F. Picabia.
Philadelphia museum or art. Arensberg Catalogue,
Exhibitions: Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne, Rouen,
1954, pi. 92.
1912, no. 93.
golding, j. Cubism, London, 1959, p. 161.
Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 42 (as The
Church).
This second portrait of Dr. Morinaud, probably from his office on
Cezanne till Picasso, Moderna Museets Vanner,
Avenue de l'Opera, shows Gleizes again giving prominence to the
Stockholm, 1954, no. 146.
curvilinear elements that had been important in his style in 1907-09.
The painting became the subject of a lively debate between Mari-
The cathedral had a special fascination for many French Cubists,
netti and Lhote. (La Vie des Lettres et des Arts, no. 16, 1922, p. 10,)
not only because of its admirable architecture but because of the
in which the Futurist leader insisted that a Futurist painter would
social and historical synthesis which resulted from its context as the
have attempted to "give the ensemble of visual sensations capable
focal point of an otherwise modern town.
of being experienced by the person on the balcony". Lhote replied
that such preoccupations were "literary" and "psychological", and
outside the interests of the French Cubists. He was wrong for,
although not primarily concerned with the reality of visual sensa- 36. THE PORT (LE PORT). 1912.
tions, Gleizes was, nevertheless, deeply committed to symbolic and Pencil, 6x71" (15 xl9cm.).
psychological relationships. Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 12"; on reverse, "Dessin pour le
tableau Un Port 1912 qui appartient a Madame Duchamp-Villon

Rue Lemaitre a Puteaux (Seine) No. 2".
Provenance: from the artist, 1938.
33. sketch for "harvest threshing". 1912.
(Etude pour "le depiquage des moissons").
Oil on board, 20 x25i" (51 x65 cm.).
Signed l.r. "Albert Gleizes". 37. THE PORT (LE PORT MARCHAND). 1912.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Josefowitz, New York. Oil on canvas, 35i x45j" (90 x 116,5 cm.).
Provenance: Mme. P. de Cugio, Paris. Signed l.r. "Albert Gleizes 12".
Exhibitions: Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, no. 43 bis. Lent by The Art Gallery of Toronto, Gift from the Junior Women's
Moderni Umeni, S.V.U., Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 37. Committee Fund, 1955.
Provenance: Raymond Duchamp-Villon.
Madame Lignieres Duchamp-Villon.
Sidney Janis Gallery, 1954.
34. HARVEST THRESHING (LE DEPIQUAGE DES MOISSONS) Exhibitions: Salon des Independants, Paris, 1913, no. 1294.
1912. Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 1913, no. 1.
Oil on canvas, 106 xl38j" (269 x353 cm.). Moderni Umeni, S.V.U., Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 43.
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes, 1912". Exhibition of Cubism (period 1910-13), de Hauke
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. and Company, New York, 1930, no. 12.
Provenance: from the artist, 1938. Le Cubisme, 1907-1914, Musee National d'Art
Exhibitions: Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 43. Moderne, 1953, no. 87.
Trente Ans d'Art Independant, Paris, 1926, no. 1058. II Bienal, Sao Paulo, 1953, no. 17.
Literature: hourcade, o. Paris-Journal, October, 1912. Literature: art gallery of Toronto, Painting and Sculpture,
Les Beaux-Arts, Paris, August, 1938, p. 2, ill. 1959, p. 57.
gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
p. 208. The Port, also a popular Neo-Impressionist subject, was another
golding, j. Cubism, London, 1959, pp. 160-161. characteristic theme appropriate to the interests of the Passy
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Cubists. The word on the hull of the center ship is probably the first 41. THE METRO (LE METRO). 1912.
time lettering appeared in a Gleizes painting, perhaps due to the Oil on canvas, 15 x 18" (38 x 46 cm.).
influence of Picasso and Braque, but in this case, the foreignness of Signed l.r. "Alb Gleizes".
the word "King" reinforces symbolic associations of the Port, an Lent by Rex de C. Nan Kivell, London.
international commercial center. Exhibition: Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 1913, no. 3, (as La Gare).
Embodying as it did the modern realities of speed and decreased

38. LANDSCAPE (PAYSAGE). 1912. distance (hence simultaneity), the railroad, treated in plastic terms,
Oil on board, 14i \17i" (37,5 x43,5 cm.). was a logical subject for Gleizes. Although less heroic than Delau-
nay's Hommage to Bleriot, symptomatic of an
it is essential over-
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. lapping interest shared by these men.
Provenance : from the artist, 1938.
Exhibitions: Moderne Kunst Kring, Amsterdam, 1912, no. 114.
Cubism, Arts Club of Chicago, 19.55, no. 36.
42. PORTRAIT OF THE PUBLISHER FIGUIERE. 1913.
With this work (actually the mouth of a river) Gleizes again takes up (PORTRAIT DE FIGUIERE).
themes from his earliest paintings. Oil on canvas, 56i x40i" (143 xl02 cm.).
Lent by Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon.
39. PASSY (BRIDGES OF PARIS). 1912. Exhibitions: Salon d'Automne, 1913, no. 768.
Oil on canvas, 22J x28i" (58 x72,5 cm.). Moderni Umeni, S.V.U., Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 47.
Signed 1.1. "Albert Gleizes". Les Maitres de V Art Independant 1895-1937, Paris,
Lent by Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna. 1937, p. 94, no. 16.
Provenance: Sidney Janis Gallery, New Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 12.
York.
Exhibitions: Salon de la Section d'Or, Paris, 1912, no. 41.
Galerie des Garets, Paris, 1947, no. 1.
Societe Normande de Peinture Moderne, Rouen, Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 4.
1912, no. 91. he Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris,
Der Sturm, Berlin, July, 1914. 1953, no. 119.
Kunst von 1900 bis Heute, Museum des 20. Jahr-

Les Sources du XXe Siecle, Musee National d'Art
hunderts, Vienna, 1962, no. 58. Moderne, Paris, 1961.
Literature: gleizes and metzinger. Du. Cubisme, Paris, 1912, Exposition d'Art Francois 1840-1940, National Mu-
p. 105.
seum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1961-62, no. 366.
apollinaire, G. Paris- Journal, 1914, (cf. Chroniques Literature: salmon, a. "Le Salon d'Automne", Montjoie, nos.
d'Art, 1960, p. 405). 11-12, 1913, pp. 3-5.
golding, J. Cubism, London, 1959, p. 158. allard, r. Les Ecrits Francois, 1913, p. 3.
gleizes, a. Kubismus, Munich, 1928, pi. 9.
A synthesis of the modern city with smoke, river and cogniat, R. and george, w. Roger de la Fresnaye,
its steel
bridges, this work probably Paris, 1949, p. 40.

refers also to the spirit of solidarity
among the newly formed "Artists of Passy". In this sense it indi-
deroudille, R. Bulletin des Musees Lyonnais, 1956,
cates an awareness of factions within no. 1, p. 12.
Cubism.
Vincent, M. Catalogue du Musee de Lyon, 1956,
p. 315.
40. THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS. 1912-13. rosenblum, R. Cubism and Twentieth-century Art,
(LES JOUEURS DE FOOTBALL). New York, 1960, no. 117.
Oil on canvas, 89 x72" (226 xl83 cm.).

Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 1912-13". Eugene Figuiere, head of his own publishing company, strove to be
Private Collection, New York. identified with every modern development. In this portrait which
Provenance: Collection Dalmau, Barcelona. Salmon admired for its "fine and most adroit psychology", he is
Exhibitions: Salon des Independants, Paris, 1913, no. 1293. surrounded by his publications which were written by Gleizes'
Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin, 1913, no. 147. friends: Mercereau, Georges Polti, Apollinaire, Metzinger. Paid
Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1916. Fort, Gustave Kahn, Henri Martin Barzun and Jacques Nayral.
Literature: apollinaire, g. L'Intransigeant, Salon des Indepen-
dants, 1913, March 18, 1913, (cf. Chroniques d'Art,
Paris, 1960, p. 292).
43. MAN IN A HAMMOCK (L'HOMME AU HAMAC). 1909.
Montjoie, no. 4, March 29, 1913, reproduction of
Sepia ink over pencil, 12+ xl6" (32 x40,5 cm.).
drawing for Football Players.
Signed l.r. "A. Gleizes".
azoaga, e. El Cubismo, Barcelona, 1949, no. 41.
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes. Paris.
The role of team sport, especially in the context of mass audience

participation, reflects another interest of the artists of Passy.
Jacques Nayral was occasionally a sports writer (cf. V Action Nou- 44. MAN IN A HAMMOCK (L'HOMME AU HAMAC). 1913.
velle, February 25, 1914) and a fan (as was Delaunay) of foot and Pentil and ink, 7 J x6i" (20 x 16 cm.).
bicycle racing. Gleizes' Football Players dates from the same year as Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, 1913".
Delaunay"s Cardiff Team. Lent by Y\ alter Firpo, Marseilles.
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38
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39
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45. MAN IN A HAMMOCK (L'HOMME AU HAMAC). 1913. 48. THE HARBOR, sketch for "FISHING BOATS". 1913.
Oil on canvas, 5H x6H" (130 xl55,5 cm.). (LE PORT, etude pour "LES BATEAUX DE PECHE").
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 13". Watercolor, 25S xl9i" (64,5 x49 cm.).
Lent by Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Buffalo. Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1913".
Exhibitions : Modern! Umeni, S.V.U., Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 41. Lent by Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
Der Sturm, Berlin, July, 1914. Exhibition : Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 1913, no. 6.
Literature: apollinaire, g. Paris-Journal, July 4, 1914. (cf.
Chroniques d'Art, 1960. p. 405).

gleizes, A. "L'Epopee", Le Rouge el le Noir, Octo- 49. FISHING BOATS (LES BATEAUX DE PECHE). 1913.
ber. 1929. p. 81. Oil on canvas, 65 x43j" (165 xlll cm.).
Lent by Madame Ferdinand Moller, Cologne.
This painting presents an interesting synthesis of back and forth
Provenance: Korner, Essen.
motion and introduces a composition based on the intersection of
Exhibitions: Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1913, no. 770.
powerful diagonals. It goes back to a number of related sources in
Moderni Umeni, S.V.U., Manes, Prague, 1914, no. 44.
addition to the drawings no. 43, 44. A large and finished painting of
Der Sturm, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1961, no. 85.
Man in a Hammock dating from the summer of 1909 is on the reverse
Europdische Kunst 1912, Wallraf-Richartz Museum,
of Houses among Trees 1910, (no. 16). In the pre-Cubist version
Cologne, 1962, no. 61.
and in a small oil sketch (once in the Ida Bienert collection, Dres-
Literature: apollinaire. g. Ulntransigeant, November 14, 15,
den), the man wears a large sombrero.
1913. (cf. Chroniques d'Art, Paris, 1960, pp. 337-
339).
kuppers, P. E. Der Kubismus, Leipzig, 1920, pi. 3.
46. THE CITY AND THE RIVER. 1913. gleizes, A. "L'Fpopee", Le Rouge et le Noir, Paris,
(LA VILLE ET LE FLEUVE). October, 1929, p. 69.

Ink, 7ix6i" (19,5x16 cm.). dorival, B. Les Peintres du Vingtieme Siecle, Paris,
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1913 La Ville et le 1957, p. 97.
Fleuve".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Apollinaire called this painting the "glory" of the Salon d'Automne,
1913. It recapitulates the artist's longstanding social concern for
This drawing (see fig. 3, p. 18) is known record of
the only presently scenes of work as w ell as his interest in night effects.
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one of Gleizes' most important works, The City and the River,
which combined in a large canvas all his attitudes toward the
modern city: its location in landscape, its establishment and life on 50. DRAWING FOR "HEAD IN A LANDSCAPE". 1913.
the bank of a river. An oil sketch, once in the Graf collection,
(ETUDE POUR "TETE D'HOMME").
Stuttgart, unfortunately has also disappeared.
Sepia ink, 4i x6i" (11 x 16,5 cm.).
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New "iork. Gift of
47. SEWING WOMEN (FEMMES COUSANT). 1913. Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Colin, 1964.
Oil on canvas, 73 x49i" (185,5 xl26 cm.).
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 13"'; on reverse "A. Gleizes les
femmes qui cousent". 51. HEAD IN A LANDSCAPE (TETE D'UN HOMME). 1913.
Lent by Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo. Oil on canvas, 14i x 191" (38 x 50,5 cm.).
Provenance: Herwarth Walden, Berlin, 1913. Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 13".
Blumenfeld, Berlin, with Komter, Amsterdam. Lent anonymously.
Komter sale, Maks, Amsterdam, January 24, 1922. Exhibition: Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich, 1913, no. 31.
Exhibitions: Der Sturm, Berlin, 1913.
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover-Dusseldorf, 1928, The work is probably a self-portrait.
no. 65.
Volksuniversiteit, Rotterdam, 1949.
Sous le
:
Signe d Apollinaire, Verviers, Ghent, Brus- 52. LANDSCAPE WITH BRIDGE. Circa 1912-13.
sels, 1950, no. 18. (PAYSAGE AVEC UN PONT).
Le Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Ink, 7 x5+" (18x14 cm.).
1953, no. 20. Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 1910-12".
Literature: raynal, m. Anthologie de la Peinture en France, Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, Kings Point, New York.
Paris, 1927, p. 159; English edition, New York,
p. 212.
gleizes, A. Tradition et Cubism, Paris, 1927, pi. 5. 53. LANDSCAPE (PAYSAGE). 1913.
Oilon canvas, 35J x28}" (91 x72,5 cm.).
The artist's mother and two sisters were the models for this work. Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 13".
The treatment of faces and hands shows the close relationship be- Lent by Ferdinand Howald Collection, The Columbus Gallery of
tween the individual styles of Gleizes and Metzinger shortly after the Fine Arts, Ohio.
publication of Du Cubisme. An oil sketch for the central head is in Provenance: John Quinn, New \ork, 1927.
the collection of Dr. Kriegel, Lackawanna, New York. Ferdinand How-aid.
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One of a number of small paintings from 1912-13 involving the 58. TWO WOMEN IN FRONT OF A WINDOW. 1914.
theme of the bridge, this suburban landscape relates to the back- (FEMMES ASSISES DEVANT UNE FENETRE).
ground of Sewing Women (no. 47) and the preparatory drawing Oil on canvas, 44i x57" (13,5 x45 cm.).
(no. 52). Signed and dated "Alb Gleizes 14".

Lent by Pedro Vallenilla Echeverria, Caracas.
Provenance: John Quinn, 1927.
Pierre Matisse.
54. LANDSCAPE WITH WINDMILL. 1913.
New York, 1915, no. 31.
Exhibition: Carroll Galeries,
(PAYSAGE AVEC MOULIN). New York,
Literature: The John Quinn Collection, Huntington,
Oiljjn canvas, 38} x3H" (98,5 x79,5 cm.).
1926.
Signed 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 13".
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul, New York.
The artist's mother and sister once again are seen from the interior
Provenance: Suillerot, Paris.
of the Courbevoie house where the arabesque against the window
Exhibition : Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut,
recalls the grille motif first expressed in the 1909 drawing for The
1960, no. 103.
Kitchen, now in Lyon.
Literature: apollonio, u. Fauves and Cubists, New York, 1959,
p. 67.
Concentrating more on effect, the power of wind, harnessed for 59. SKETCH FOR "THE CITY". 1914.
this painting contrasts with (ETUDE POUR "LA VILLE").
man's use, rather than on the object,
Ink, 10+ x8" (27x20 cm.).
a slightly earlier variant once in the Jacques Villon collection.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel J. Zacks, Toronto.
STUDY FOR "PORTRAIT OF IGOR STRAVINSKY". 1914.

There is another version of this drawing in the Leffert collection.
(ETUDE POUR STRAVINSKY). New York. Both are the basis for one of Gleizes' rare early etchings,
Ink, 10ix7i" (26x20 cm.). and are preliminary notations for the 1914 painting The City,
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Etude Stravinsky, Paris, Juki,
formerly in the Quinn collection, now in a private collection,
1914, Alb Gleizes". Chicago.
60. MONTREUIL LANDSCAPE. 1914.

56. PORTRAIT OF IGOR STRAVINSKY. 1914. (PAYSAGE DE MONTREUIL).
Oil on canvas, 51i x45i" (130 x 114,5 cm.). Oil on canvas, 28i x 36i" (73 x 92 cm.).
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1914, Igor Stra- Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 14".
vinsky". Lent by Saarland-Museum, Saarbriicken.
Lent by Richard S. Zeisler, New York. Provenance: Nell Walden.
Provenance: Madame Frigerio, Paris. Stuttgarter Kunstkabinett, 1954.
Exhibitions: Montross Gallery, New York, 1916, no. 35. Exhibitions: Sammlung Nell Walden, Galerie Flechtheim, Berlin,
Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 5. 1927, no. 75.

UOeuvre du XXe siecle, Musee National d'Art Mo- Wege abstrakter Malerei, Galerei Gunther Franke,
derne, Paris, 1952. Munich. 1929-30, no. 12.
Twentieth Century Masters, Marlborough Gallery, Der Sturm, Kunstmuseum. Bern. 1911 1 5, no. 284.
London, 1955. Expressionisten, Kunsthaus. Zurich, 1945, no. 38.

Le Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Sammlung Nell Walden, Kunsthalle, Basel, 1953,
1953, no. 171. no. 237.
Literature: degand, l. Art d'Aujourd'hui, Series 3, no. 5, June Der Sturm, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1954, no. 26.
1952, p. 24. Exposition Verkannte Kunst, Kunsthalle. Reckling-
"Presence d'Albert Gleizes", Zodiaque, nos. 6-7, hausen, 1957, no. 55.
January. 1952, p. 31. Der Sturm, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 1961, no. 86.
For the Portrait of Stravinsky there exist half a dozen pen and ink Among the last of Gleizes' pre-war suburban landscapes, this canvas
studies, such as no. 55, as well as a large oil sketch which bears the should be compared with the Landscape, no. 53, to demonstrate
inscription, "Etude pour Stravinsky, Petroushka, Theatre de that although he continued to deal with deep space and wide vistas,
Champs-Elysees". Gleizes had followed the development of modern he did so with a marked reduction of specific references to reality.
music since his association with Albert Doyen at the Abbaye.
61. STUDY FOR "WOMAN AT THE PIANO". 1913.
57. TWO WOMEN IN FRONT OF A WINDOW. 1914. (ETUDE POUR "FEMME AU PIANO").
(FEMMES ASSISES DEVANT UNE FENETRE). Watercolor. 10! x8i" (27 x21 cm.).
Gouache, 18i x21i" (47,6 x54 cm.). Not signed or dated.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1914". Lent by Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter
Lent by Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York. Arensberg Collection.
Exhibition: Marlborough Gallerv, London, 1956, cat. no. 46. Literature: Philadelphia museum of art. Arensberg Catalogue,
1954, pi. 93.
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62. WOMAN AT THE PIANO (FEMME AU PIANO). 1914. Literature: ozenfant and jeanneret. La Peinture Moderne,
Oil on canvas, 57| x45i" (146.5 xll5,5 cm.). Paris, 1924, p. 118 (reproduced showing 1914-15
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 14". date).
Lent by Philadelphia Museum of -Art. The Louise and ^ alter "Presence d'Albert Gleizes", Zodiaque, nos. 6-7,
Arensberg Collection. January, 1952, pp. 32-33.
Exhibitions: Carroll Galleries, New York, 1915, no. 30.

Literature: rosenblum, r. Cubism and Twentieth Century Art, At least eight studies survive for this majestic portrait of Professor
New York, 1960, no. 118. Lourbet of Nancy. Painted at the fortress city of Toul, late 1914
Philadelphia museum OF art. Arensberg Catalogue, 1954, pi. 94. early 1915, it began to fuse circular rhythm (see the treatment of the
shoulders) to the estabbshed composition based on intersecting
This painting of one of his sisters playing the piano in the house at diagonals, (see cat. nos. 45, 47).
Courbevoie is an important source for the first Portrait of Florent
Schmitt (no. 70).

68. MY FRIEND THfiO M. (MON AMI THEO M.). 1914.
Watercolor, 18 xl4" (46 x35,5 cm.).
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes Mon ami Theo M.
63. THE 14th OF JULY (LE 14 JUILLET). 1914.
Toul 1914".
Ink. 153 *12i" (40 x31 cm.). Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1914: Dessin pour Le
14 Juillet".
69. WATERCOLOR FOR "CITY OF TOUL". 1915.

In terms of picture construction, sketches such as this for the un-
(AQUARELLE POUR "U\ YILLE DE TOUL").
finished 14th of July are of critical importance, for their rhythms
Watercolor, 8 xlOi" (21,5 x26 cm.).
anticipate Gleizes' vital theory of translation and rotation. They
culminated in a gouache, (sold from the Gleizes exhibition, Galerie
Lent by Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Rafel, South Orange, New Jersey.
des Garets, 1947, whereabouts unknown) because the projected
painting was barely underway when war broke out in 1914.
The Moselle river, spanned by a bridge, dominates the lower part of
this composition, one of several studies for two 1915 paintings of the
City of Toul. The first of these, in the Bourdon collection, Paris, is
64. STUDY NO. 2 FOR "PORTRAIT OF AN ARMY DOCTOR". an echo of the City and the River theme. The second, (exhibited
(ETUDE 2 POUR "MEDECIN MILITAIRE"). 1915. Marlborough, London, 1956, no. 11) converts the subject into
Ink, 7+ x 6" (19 x 15 cm.).

powerful circular rhythms, akin to nos. 72, 73, 75.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes Toul 15": on reverse "No. 2
Etude pour Medecin Militaire Toul 1915".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. PORTRAIT OF FLORENT SCHMITT. 1914-15.
Provenance: from the artist. 1938. Oil on canvas, 79 x60" (200 xl52 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes Toul 14, 15".
Lent by Josefowitz Collection, Geneva.

Provenance: Bourdon, Paris.
65. STUDY NO. 7 FOR "PORTRAIT OF AN ARMY DOCTOR". Exhibitions: Montross Gallery, New York, 1916, no. 41 (as The
(ETUDE 7 POUR "MEDECIN MILITAIRE"). 1915. Man at the Piano).
Ink with crayon, 9i x 7i" (25 x20 cm.). Galerie des Garets, Paris, 1947, no. 2.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes Toul 1915": on reverse "7 Etude Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 6.
pour Medecin Militaire Toul 1915".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 1953, no. 172.
77 Bienal, Sao Paulo, 1953, no. 18.
Florent Schmitt, an important French composer, wras stationed at
66. ARMY DOCTOR (MEDECIN MILITAIRE). 1914. Toul with Gleizes. This large portrait marks the beginning of an
Gouache, 6 x 7i" (15 x 19 cm.). attempt to preserve specific and individual visual characteristics
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes Toul 14". while experimenting with a radically different compositional treat-
Lent bv Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fuller, New York. ment in which broad planes, angled from the perimeter, meet
circles. The source for such a method is found in the drawings for
the 14th of July, (no. 63).
67. PORTRAIT OF AN .ARMY DOCTOR. 1914-15.

(PORTRAIT D'UN MEDECIN MILITAIRE). 71. PORTRAIT OF FLORENT SCHMITT, THE SONG OF WAR.
Oil on canvas, 47 i x37i" (120 x95 cm.). (PORTRAIT DE FLORENT SCHMITT. CHANT DE GUERRE).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, Toul 1914". 1915.
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Oil on canvas, 39i x 39i" (100 x 101 cm.).
Provenance: Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1937. Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes; Chant de Guerre,
Exhibition: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 8. Toul 1915, a F. Schmitt".
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Lent by Musee National d'Art Modeme, Paris. the subject for one of Gleizes' rare still life paintings. (Throughout
Exhibitions: Montross Gallery, New York. 1916. no. 47. his life Gleizes was deeply attached to the principles of artisanship.)
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 16. Several studies, among them no. 74, preceded this work.
Tate Gallery. London, 1956.

La Musique, Besancon, 195..
Apollinaire, Palazzo Barbarini, Rome, 1960. THE PARISIENNE. PORTRAIT OF JULIETTE ROCHE.
Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 14. (LA PARISIENNE). 1915.
Literature: dorival, b. The School of Paris in the Musee Natio- Oil on canvas, 24+ xl4l" (61,5 x36,5 cm.).
nal d'Art Modeme, New York 1962. p. 262. ill. Signed and dated l.r. ""Alb Gleizes 15".
Lent by Musee des Beaux- Arts, Lyon.

The Song of War realized the fusion sought in the first portrait of Exhibitions: Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 7.
Florent Schmirt and successfully integrated schematic indications Galerie Bern", Avignon, 1950, no. 1.
of the composer into the overall whirl of the composition. Literature vrxcEXT, m. Catalogue
: du Musee de Lyon, 1956, p. 316.
Juliette Roche, noticing the word "Julie" on a ship in The City and
COMPOSITION. 1915. the River at the 1913 Salon d Autonrne, had arranged through her
Oil on canvas, 38i x35i' (97 x91 cm.). friend Canudo to be taken to Gleizes' studio. During the first year
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 15". of the war they corresponded and in September, 1915 they were
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. married.
Exhibitions: L 'Art Abstrait, St. Etienne, 1957, no. 59 (pi. 25).
Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 11. (frontispiece).
Literature: Albert Gleizes: Hommage, Lyon, 1954, pi. 1. 77. NEW" YORK. 1915.
Gouache and ink, 26 x20" (66 x51 cm.).
This work, based on The Song of War, is Gleizes' first abstract com- Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1915 New York".
position. In it a total balance of planes and circular movement is Lent bv Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
achieved, the painter carefully building his forms in logical transi-
tions from the square of the canvas. A students version of this
painting later decorated the exterior wall of his studio in St. Remy- COMPOSITION (FOR ""JAZZ") (POUR ""JAZZ"). 1915.
de-Provence. On on board, 28 J x28i" (73 x73 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 15 N.Y.".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New \ ork.
73. COMPOSITION. 1915. Provenance : Feragil Gallery, New 1 ork, 1938.
Oil on canvas, 40 x35i' (101,5 x90 cm.). Literature: The Literary- Digest, Sew- York, November 27, 1915,
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 15". p. 1225.
Lent by Madame Henri Benezit, Paris.

Literature: seuphor, m. Dictionary of Abstract Painting, New Gleizes was tremendously impressed by New \ork City but the
York, 1957, p. 179. earliest New York paintings continued without break the formal
research advanced at Toul (nos. 71-75) even though the influence
This complex painting is based on compositional problems related of new subject matter is apparent. In a photograph first published
to nos. 71 and 72. in the Xeic York Herald, later reprinted in The Literary Digest,
October 27, 1915, he can be seen at work on this painting.
74. THE LORRAINE PITCHER. 1914.

(LA CRUCHE LORRAINE). 79. JAZZ ILE JAZZ). 1915.
Watercolor, 12 x8" (30,5 x20,5 cm.). Oil on board, 39f x29+" (100 x75 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes, Toul, 14". Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes New York 1915".
Lent by The Los Angeles County Museum, Mr. and Mrs. W ilham Lent by Rene Deroudille, Lyon.
Preston Harrison Collection. Exhibitions: Galerie Berry, Avignon, 1950, no. 2.
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 15 (as Banjo).
Literature: deroudille, r. i 4 Soli, no. 2, 1955, pp. 6-7.
THE LORRAINE PITCHER. 1915.

(LA CRUCHE LORRAINE). Jazz again exploits circular movements in combination with broad
Oil on canvas, 40 x40" (101,5 x 101,5 cm.). tilting planes, incorporating the specific gestures of the two players
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 15". into an inner framework that points clearly to the style of the 20 s.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Rothschild, Kitchawan. New York.

Exhibitions: Bourgeois Galleries, New \ork, 1916, no. 14.
Rene Gimpel New \ork, 1937, no. 10.
Galerie, 80. CHAL POST. 1915.
Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 6. Gouache with oil on board, 39i x30" (101 x76 cm.).
1.1. "Alb Gleizes New York
1915"".
Signed and dated
Searching for subjects appropriate to his new interests in circu l a r Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New "i ork.
movement, Gleizes found a typical Lorraine vase, a long jar with as Provenance: from the artist, 1938.
many as four circular handles attached to its neck. This traditional Exhibition: Montross Gallery, New York, 1916, no. 36.
form, whose possibilities had been explored for centuries, became Literature: Albert Gleizes: Hommage, Lyon, 1954. pi. 2.
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81. KELLY SPRINGFIELD. 1915. 85. BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 1915.

Gouache with on board, 39s x30" (101 x76 cm.).
oil Oil with sand on board, 59 x47i" (150 xl20 cm.).
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes N.Y. 15"". Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes New York 1915".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York. Lent by Madame P. de Gavardie, Paris.
Provenance: from the artist, 1938. Exhibition : Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 10.
Exhibitions: Montross Gallery, New \ork, 1916, no. 37.

This second oil version of the Brooklyn Bridge is totally abstract,
Gleizes was fascinated by the signs of New \ ork, especially those its dominant patterns derived from the criss-cross of intersecting
painted across windows read in reverse from the interior. supporting cables. This work marks Gleizes' first use of sand on a
pictures surface and signals a period of experimentation with new
painting techniques.
82. BROADWAY. 1915.
Oil on board, 38* x30" (98,5 x76 cm.).
Signed 1.1. "Albert Gleizes"-.
ON BROOKLYN BRIDGE (SLR BROOKLYN BRIDGE). 1917.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. AltschuL New York. Oil on canvas, 63 i >51" (162 x 129,5 cm.).
Provenance: Dalmau. Barcelona. Signed, dated and inscribed 1.1. "Albert Gleizes New \ork 1917 sur
Exhibition: \ale University Art Gallery-, New Haven, I960, no. Brooklyn-Bridge"
104.
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New \ ork.
Literature: Literary Digest. New York. November 27, 1915. Provenance: from the artist. 1937.
Exhibitions : The Brooklyn Bridge, The Brooklyn Museum, New-
The initial American reaction to Gleizes might be typified by a York, 1958.
letter about this painting published in Literary Digest on December
Literature: gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
3, from Mr. W. E. Bolles in Detroit, Michigan: "... Among the
p. 208.
mass of indicated characteristics of Broadway, such as skyscrapers,
great newspapers, rapid transit, etc. a person with a vivid imagina-
This third and last oil version, related most closely to the 1915
tion can see... in the grouping of these elements the face of a
drawing (no. 83), attempts to synthesize the City under the symbol
prosperous, well-fed, well groomed keen minded business man..."
of the Bridge. Lnified by whirling circles, the composition shows
A related study, developed from the strong diagonals, is in the
both ends of the bridge with the river below and buildings of Man-
Howald collection at the Columbus Gallerv of Fine Arts.
hattan and Brooklyn beyond. Gleizes and Joseph Stella had been
friends since 1915 and it is interesting to compare this painting
with Stella's Brooklyn Bridge of 1917-1918, painted somewhat later.

a3. BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 1915.
TtiI- and gouache, 9i >: 7*" (25 x 19 cm.).
On reverse: "Albert Gleizes Brooklyn Bridge 1915".
THE ASTOR CLP RACE (FLAGS). 1915.
(LE PRIX ASTOR CLP 01 LES DRAPEAUX).
Gouache with oil on board, 39i x29i" (99,5 x74 cm.).
The first of Gleizes" Brooklyn Bridge drawings, this work is a study
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 15 N.Y.".
for the 1917 oik no. 86.
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New "i ork.
Exhibitions: Montross Gallery. New York, 1916, no. 39.
84. BROOKLYN BRIDGE. 1915.
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 40i x40i" (102 x!02 cm.).
The gay motif borrowed from the races was later incorporated into
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1915 Brooklyn Bridge".
the second version of Clowns, 1917. at the Musee d'Art Modeme de
la \ ille de Paris. Despite the exuberance realized here, however, a
Provenance: John Quinn, (Sale, 1927).
note of deep irony is struck for the numbers 8 and 6 are those of
J. B. Neumann, 1944.
his dead friend Nayxal's regiment in the French Army. (See no. 98).
Exhibitions: Montross Gallery, New York, 1916, no. 40.
Cubism and Abstract Art, Museum of Modem Art,
New York, 1936, no. 88.
Contemporary Movements in European Painting, OVERLAND. 1916.
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, 1938, no. 40. Oilon canvas, 31i x25+" (81 x65 cm.).
Literature: Literary Digest, November 27, 1915, p. 1225 (visible Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1916".
in photograph of Gleizes). Lent by Galerie L. Bourdon, Paris.
SEtPHOR, M. L Art Abstrait, Paris, 1950, p. 146. Exhibitions : Montross Gallery, New \ ork, 1916, no. 48.
ROSESBLOl, R. Cubism and Twentieth-Century Art, Le Cubisme, Musee National d'Art Modeme, Paris,
New York. 1960. 1953. no. 38.
The Bridge, which appears in elevation in Chal Post (no. 80) is here
synthesized into a dizzying structure in which a cityscape is seen 89. TOWARD NEW YORK. 1916.
through the great swing and intersecting patterns of the cables (IMPRESSION DE NEW YORK).
which dominate the canvas surface. In the first interview- given after Ink. 17 13i" (43,5 x33,5 cm.).
his arrival in America, Gleizes stated his admiration for the Brook- Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 16, N.Y.".
lyn Bridge, comparing it to the noblest achievements of European Lent bv Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
architecture.
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90. study for "downtown". 1916. with circular motion. This specific method of picture construction
(Etude pour "downtown"). was (theoretically) formulated by Gleizes several years later, be-
Gouache, 24} x 18 J" (63 x48 cm.). tween 1920 and 1923.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1916 New York" on reverse "Alb
;
Gleizes. 16 N.Y. No. 16) New York 1916 Etude. Gouache pour
'Downtown' New York. La peinture a l'huile appartient a le Gug- 96. CLOWNS. 1916.
genheim Foundation". Oil on board, 29i x25" (75 x63 cm.).
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 16".
Provenance: from the artist, 1938. Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Exhibition : Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 16.
91. TARRYTOWN. 1916. The circus theme interested Gleizes for several years, appearing in
Gouache, 24i x 18}" (62,5 x47,5 cm.). pre-war Paris works (no. 119, for example) and continuing through
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes Terrytown 1916 N.Y."; on 1920, (no. 120). We also know a second version of this painting
reverse "No. 17) Aquarelle gouache 'Terrytown' N.Y. 1916 Pas de from 1917, (see comment for no. 87).
tableau".
97. TO JACQUES NAYRAL (A JACQUES NAYRAL). 1914.
Gouache, 16 xl2" (40,5 x30,5 cm.).
This is clearly preliminary to no. 92, despite the artist's inscription.
Signed, dated and inscribed 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 14; Jacques NayTal
tue a La Bossee, 1914".
92. COMPOSITION (TARRYTOWN). 1916.
Exhibition: Gleizes, Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956, no. 45.
Oil on canvas, 36 J x29i" (93,5 x74,5 cm.).
Signed and dated "Alb Gleizes, 16"; on reverse
l.r. a painting of
Gleizes first learned of the death of his brother-in-law and friend
1920: Woman of a Window.
in Front
when a postcard on which he had written "Patience, a little more
Lent by Messrs. Kennedy-Garber, New York.
patience, it is impossible that this war can endure much longer...
then we will put ourselves back to work..." came back marked
In his attempt to organize in plastic terms the abstract equivalent
"disparu".
of his earlier broad panoramas, Gleizes reverted to the tilting planes
reminiscent of smaller ones in such volumetric cubist works as The
Hunt and Jacques Nayral, both of 1911 (nos. 28, 27).
TO JACQUES NAYRAL (A JACQUES NAYRAL). 1917.
Oil on board, 30 x23}" (76 x60 cm.).
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes 17, a Jacques Nayral".
93. NEAR NEW YORK (ENVIRONS DE NEW YORK). 1915.
Lent by Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.
Gouache and ink, 251 x 19}" (65 x 50 cm.).
Signed, dated and inscribed 1.1. "Albert Gleizes, 1915, Terrytown,
Les Peintres Cubistes, Galerie Suillerot, Paris, 1963.
N.Y.".
This is a private portrait, an intensely personal memorial to his
closest friend, a key figure who shared the hopes of the pre-war
Passy group for a collective artistic program.
94. HEAD OF A CLOWN (TETE DE CLOWN). 1915.
Ink, 7}x7i" (19,2 xl8,2 cm.).
Signed, dated and inscribed I.e. "Alb Gleizes Toul 1915 Etude pour
Tete de Clown". 99. STILL LIFE WITH FLASKS. 1916.
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Freeman, New York.

(NATURE MORTE AUX FLACONS).
Provenance : Rose Fried, New York. Ink, 10 J x8i" (27,5 x21,5 cm.).
Royal Marks, New York. Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes Barcelone 1916"; on reverse
"Dessin a la plume pour 'Nature morte aux flacons' Barcelone 1916
le tableau app. a Alb Gleizes".
This is actually a portrait of the artist Georges Valmier, who was in
Gleizes' regiment at Toul. Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
95. HEAD OF A CLOWN (TETE DE CLOWN). 1914-17. Preliminary drawing for no. 100.
Oil on canvas, 46 x38" (117 x96,5 cm.).

Signed and dated 1.1. "Albert Gleizes 1914-17".
Lent anonymously. 100. STILL LIFE WITH BOTTLES. 1916.
Exhibitions: Ardsley Studios, New York, 1919, no. 8. (NATURE MORTE AUX BOUTEILLES).
Les Maitres de V Art Independant 1895-1937, Petit Oil on board, 18} xl3}" (46 x35 cm.).
Palais, Paris, 1937, no. 20. Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 16"; signed and dated 1.1
"Albert Gleizes, Barcelone, 1916".

Developed from studies begun at Toul in 1915 (see no. 94), this Lent by Dr. Jules Vache, Lunel, France.
painting displays Gleizes' characteristic fusion of tilting planes Exhibition: Galerie Berry, Avignon, 1950, no. 4.
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Gleizes rarely painted still lifes, his epic interests usually finding 105. BERMUDA STUDY (LES BERMUDES).. 1917.
sympathetic echos in more inclusive themes. His earliest Cubist Watercolor and pencil, 11 x8" (28 x22 cm.).
still life, dating from 1912, formerly in the Weimar Museum, is un- Signed and dated I.e. "Alb Gleizes 17"; on reverse "Aquarelle pour
fortunately lost and a second of 1915 relates to this Barcelona work. Paysage, la maison du Gouverneur . . . Bermuda 1917. le tableau ap-
Apart from The Lorraine Pitcher (no. 75), he made no more until partient a Stieglitz, N.Y.".
1924. Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

101. JEAN COCTEAU. 1915.

106. BERMUDA STUDY (LES BERMUDES). 1917.
Gouache, 22 xl5i" (56 x40 cm.).
Watercolor and gouache over crayon, 113- x 9i" (30 x24 cm.).
Signed and dated I.e. "Albert Gleizes, Jean Cocteau 1915".
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, Etude Bermudes 17".
Exhibition: Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 13.
Gleizes and Cocteau, who was later a witness at Gleizes' marriage,
first became friends during their collaboration on an unrealized

107. THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE, BERMUDA LANDSCAPE. 1917.
(UA. MAISON DU GOUVERNEUR).
production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. This would have been
Oil on board, 35* x27i" (89,5 x70 cm.).
the first Cubist stage production and Gleizes was to design the
costumes and Andre Lhote the sets. It was to be performed at the
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul, New York.
Cirque Medrano in the summer of 1915, but, because of the war,
Provenance : A. Stieglitz, New York.
this proved impossible. All of Gleizes' costume drawings are in the
H. D. Walker, Minneapolis.
collection of the Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Exhibition: Loan Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts, 1920. no. 45.
PORTRAIT OF JEAN COCTEAU. 1916. Returning to America early in 1917, the Gleizes' left almost im-
102.
Oil with plaster on canvas, 45 J x31i" (116 x80 cm.). mediately for Bermuda, where they stayed about two months. The
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Albert Gleizes, Barcelone, 16 Jean effect of Bermuda's mild weather, lush foliage and pastel colors
Cocteau". directly influenced Gleizes' style, which became unusually sensuous.

Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Siegfried Ullmann, Palm Beach, Florida. These paintings seem removed from the complex formal and in-
Exhibitions: Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1916. tellectual concerns which Gleizes had already begun to deal with.
Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 11. The parallel brushstrokes indicate also a temporary return to a
Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 7. Cezannesque technique.
Literature: goth, m. 391, no. 1, Barcelona, January 25, 1917.
In this portrait, painted in Barcelona, Gleizes treated Cocteau in the 108. BERMUDA DRAWING (LES BERMUDES). 1917.
same vein as their Shakespeare project. Although he carries a Pencil and watercolor, 10J x8J" (27,5 x21,5 cm.).
basket of fruit, (as did Ariel who produced the grand banquet at the Signed and dated l.r. "A. Gleizes 17".
end of the Tempest) the costume also relates to the Red Cross Lent by Galerie Moos, Geneva.
uniform worn by Cocteau during the war. Such an interpretation
would be in agreement with the generally symbolic tenor of Gleizes'
thinking.
109. BERMUDA SCENE (PAYSAGE DES BERMUDES). 1917.
Oil on canvas, 32 x25i" (81 x64,5 cm.).

Collection Romanet. Paris.
103. DANCER (DANSEUSE). 1916.
Provenance: Pierre Faure.
Oil and gouache, 101 x8i" (26 x20,5 cm.).
Exhibitions: Bourgeois Galleries, New York, 1917.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, Barcelone 16".
Les Createurs du Cubisme, Les Beaux-Arts, Paris,
Lent by Dr. Henry M. Roland, London.
1935.
A variant of this painting, with the composition reversed, is in the
collection of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris.

104. SPANISH DANCER (DANSEUSE ESPAGNOLE). 1916.
Oil with sand on board, 39J x30i" (101 x76,5 cm.).
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New \ork. 110. BARCELONA HARBOR (LE PORT DE BARCELONE). 1916.
Provenance: Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New \ork, 1937. Mixed media on paper, 18i x23" (46,5 x58,5 cm.).
Exhibitions: Bourgeois Galleries, New York, 1917, no. 29. Signed and dated l.r. "Barcelone. 1916 Albert Gleizes": on reverse
Ardsley Studios, New York, 1919, no. 3 (west room). "No 15) Aquarelle etude pour 'Un port', Barcelone 1916, Le
tableau a l'huile appartient a le Guggenheim Foimdation, II a ete
The brief Barcelona period produced a host of similar paintings in peint a New- York en 1917".
which specific patterns and motifs were exploited in an effort to Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New \ ork.
place the painting in the context of a precise encounter. Provenance: from the artist, 1938.
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111. HERE IN PORT (DANS LE PORT). 1917. Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Oil on board, 60$ x47i" (153 xl20 cm.). Provenance: Hilla Rebay, Green Farms, Connecticut.
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes New York 1917". Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 1938.
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1941.
Provenance: Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 1937. Exhibitions: Salon des Independants, Paris, 1920, no. 1011.
Exhibition: Ardsley Studios, New York, 1919, no. 3. Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 13.
These subjects of On a Music Hall Singer, On a Vaudeville Theme
This work incorporates part of the harbor scene explored in the and On a Circus Theme (collection Baltimore Museum of Art), gave
Barcelona study of 1916 (no. 110). An ink drawing in the collection rise to the concept of the subject as a "springboard" credited to
of Madame Gleizes, executed between the Barcelona study and this Gleizes and elaborated by Walter Pach in his little monograph
painting, was preparatory to the upper part of this composition. on Jacques Villon for the Societe Anonyme (New York, ca. 1924).
112. STUNT FLYING (VOLTIGE AERIENNE). 1917.

116. STUDY FOR "BUILDING CONSTRUCTION". 1916.
Oil with sand on board, 40 x29i" (101,5 x76 cm.).
(DESSIN POUR "NAISSANCE D'UN BUILDING").
Signed and dated Ink and crayon, 9j x 7J" (25 x20 cm.).
1.1. "Alb Gleizes 1917" on reverse " Voltige aerien-
;
ne. New York, 1917, Albert Gleizes".

Signed and dated "Naissance d'un building New York 1916 Alb

Gleizes"; on reverse "No 8) Dessin a la plume pour 'Naissance d'un
Provenance: Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 1937. building' New York 1916 Le tableau a l'huile doit etre dans une
Exhibitions: Ardsley Studios, New York, 1919, no. 6 (west room).

collection allemande II a ete vendu par Walden".
Salon des Independants, Paris, 1920, no. 1910. Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Provenance : from the artist, 1938.
Literature: robbins, d. "Gleizes and Delaunay", Baltimore
Museum of Art News, vol. XXV, no. 3, Spring, 1962,
pp. 9-21.
117. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION. 1917.

Although not the last painting of the circus theme, this is in many (NAISSANCE D'UN BUILDING).
respects the culmination of Gleizes' treatment of the subject. Oil on canvas, 40 x30" (101,5 x76 cm.).
Derived from a 1914 painting in the collection of Madame Gleizes Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 17".
where trapezists, audience and nets are clearly identifiable, this Lent by The Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of Thomas C. Adler.
work is abstract, employing tilting planes and circular movement Exhibition : Ardsley Studios, New York, 1919, no. 7.
to express the essence of dynamic rhythm. Literature: schoener, a. The Cincinnati Art Museum Bulletin,
1956, pp. 18-22.
This work (and the preceding study for it) are Gleizes' final syn-
113. STUDY FOR "ON A VAUDEVILLE THEME". 1916.
thesis of New York. In it we see all the elements of his style of the
(DESSIN POUR "SUR UN VAUDEVILLE").
1920's, combined with the sensuous paint handling which he
Ink and pencil, 11 x 8i" (28 x21,5 cm.).
renounced a few years later.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 'Vaudeville' Broadway N.Y.
1916"; on reverse "Dessin a la plume pour 'Sur im Vaudeville',
Broadway New York 1916 La peinture a Fhuile appartient a le
Guggenheim Foundation". 118. ON THE FLAT IRON (SUR LE FUA.T IRON). 1916.
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Ink, 104 x8i" (27 x21 cm.).
Provenance: from the artist, 1938. Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "Alb Gleizes New \ ork Sur le Flat-
iron 16".
Lent by Herbert M. Barrows, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
114. ON A VAUDEVILLE THEME (SUR UN VAUDEVILLE). 1917.

Oil on board, 47+ x38i" (120,5 x98 cm).
119. SKETCH FOR "THE EQUESTRIAN". 1914.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes N.Y. 1917".
(ETUDE POUR "SUR UNE ECUYERE DE CIRQUE").
Crayon, 10! x8i" (27 x21 cm.).
Provenance: Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 1937.
Signed, dated and inscribed l.r. "A. Gleizes Courbevoie 14".
Lent by Augustin Terrin, Marseilles.
Based on the drawing no. 113, this work is also a return to an
equestrian theme first treated in 1914 (no. 119) and relates to the
This drawing furnished a departure point for an etching of the same
circus series.
year, as well as serving as the basis for a series of paintings.
115. ON A MUSIC HALL SINGER. 1917. 120. THE EQUESTRIAN. 1919.

(SUR UNE CHANTEUSE DE MUSIC HALL). (SUR UNE EQUYERE DE CIRQUE).
Oil on board, 40 x29i" (101,5 x75,5 cm.). Oil on canvas, 37i x29i" (95 x75 cm.).
Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes. 17"; on reverse "Alb Gleizes Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, New York 19"
No 17 sur une chanteuse de music hall New York 1917". Lent by Augustin Terrin, Marseilles.
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Exhibitions: Ardsley Studios, New York, 1919, no. 2 (west room). Most of Gleizes' pictures of the period, however, were "paintings
Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 14. without subject", explorations of plastic relations that concentrated
on familiar visual problems of movement and depth.
This is the penultimate version of the Equestrian which in 1914,
(no. 119), had begun the circus pictures. The last version from
1920 was reproduced in Ozenfant and Jeanneret's La Peinture 124. COMPOSITION. 1921.
Moderne, Paris, 1924, and is in the collection of the Musee National Oil on canvas, 47i x37" (20 .-94 cm.).
d'Art Moderne, Paris. Both works, as well as the study, relate not Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 21".
only to the Vaudeville theme (nos. 113, 114) but also to the On a Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Circus Theme in the Baltimore Museum. Literature: Abstraction-Creation, no. 3, Paris, 1934, p. 18.
Gleizes' reputation as an uncompromising practitioner of austere
121. ALONG THE AVENUE (SUR L'AVENUE). 1920. abstract art in 1921 brought him his first pupils, the Irish painters
Oil on canvas, 63i x50}" (162 xl29 cm.). Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone. Obliged to clarify his methods for his
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1920". students and for himself as well, he called the now characteristic
Lent by Rudolf Indlekofer, Basel. tilting planes "translation" and the circular movements "rotation".
Provenance: G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh. Both compositional techniques can be traced back to about 1914
Exhibition: Der Sturm, Berlin, 1921. (see no. 63). The developing theories were incorporated in his
book La Peinture et ses lois, ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme, written
In Paris after the war, Gleizes retained specific themes from New in 1922.
\ork City as representative of the direction that modern collective
life would pursue. Although his manner of composing did not

change, he deliberately purged his art of all powerful touches of COMPOSITION WITH TWO NUDES. Circa 1922.
paint application in order to focus attention on the relationships (COMPOSITION AVEC DEUX NUS).
among forms. He eliminated the dominating presence of his Tempera on canvas, 47i x37" (120 x94 cm.).
physical gesture because it was too individual, amounting he Not signed or dated.
thought to an "aesthetic trick". Although eliminating sensuous- Collection Lady Norton, London.
ness in his painted surface, Gleizes retained vibrant color and even Exhibition : Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956, no. 20.
began to make his own, often mixing pigments with gasoline. The Literature: "Presence d'Albert Gleizes", Zodiaque, nos. 6-7,
result was an extremely fragile matte surface, forthright but, un- January, 1952. p. 35.
fortunately, highly susceptible to damage from moisture. Vi orks
such as this found their most ambitious realization in the enormous In order to achieve what he called "supple movement", Gleizes
mural sketch for the Gare de A/(oscow), now in the Grenoble organized his canvas by the guided movement of a chosen plane
Museum. surface. Plane surfaces move back and forth, to right and left,
progressing to more complex forms, so that curves were infused

into the developing rhythm.
122. WOMAN WITH BLACK GLOVE. 1920.

(FEMME AU GANT NOIR).
Oil on canvas, 49+ x39i" (126 x 100 cm.). 126. OCTAGONAL COMPOSITION. Circa 1922.
Signed l.r. "Albert Gleizes", dated 1.1. "1920". (COMPOSITION OCTAGONALE).

Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. Oil on canvas, 35i x27i" (89,5 x69,5 cm.).
Exhibitions: Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956, no. 13 (as Not signed or dated.
Femme Assise). Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 23. This is an example of the principles of translation and rotation
Literature: lake and maillard (ed.). Dictionary of Modern at work. A related drawing, the final illustration of La Peinture et
Painting, Paris, New York and London, 1956, p. 113. ses Lois, when it was printed in La Fie des Lettres et des Arts
(1923), was purchased by Larionov who presented it to the Museum

There are a number of small versions of this painting which illustrate of Western Art in Moscow.
one aspect of Gleizes' activity in the early 20's: reminiscences of
specific reality evoked within the context of increasingly careful

picture construction. 127. FOR A PAINTING ON A FAMILIAR THEME. 1923.
(POUR UNE PEINTURE FAMILIERE).

Gouache and watercolor, 9 x 7i" (23 x20 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, 23" ('?).

123. COMPOSITION (TABLEAU). 1921.
Tempera on panel, 36} x28j" (92 x73 cm.). Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris.
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes, 1921".

Lent by The Trustees of The Tate Gallery, London.
Provenance: Leonce Rosenberg, Paris. 128. COMPOSITION OCTOBER. 1922.
James Wardell Power, Jersey, Channel Islands. Oil on canvas. 57+ x37i" (146 x94,5 cm.).
Power Sale, Sotheby's, November 7, 1962, no. 17 Signed l.r. "Alb Gleizes": dated 1.1. "X BRE 1922".
(as Abstraction). Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Literature: Bulletin de I' Effort Moderne, March, 1925, no. 13, Literature: gleizes. a. Tradition et Cubisme, Paris, 1927, pi. 10.
pp. 8-9.
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This painting relates to a 1923 painting entitled La Vieille Dame 134. IMAGINARY STILL LIFE, BLUE. 1924.
(Marlborough, London, 1956, no. 18, ill.) and both were inspired by NATURE MORTE IMAGINAIRE, BLEUE).
a yellowed photograph of Madame Gleizes' grandmother found by Oil on canvas, 41 i x29i" (105,5 x74 cm.).
Gleizes in the Roche family home at Serrieres. Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, 24".
Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris.
Exhibitions: 2eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1924.
129. WHITE COMPOSITION. Circa 1922. Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 23.
(PEINTURE-OBJET A DOMINANTE BLANCHE). Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 20.
Oil on board, 36i x28i" (92 x73 cm.). Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 13.
Not signed or dated. Literature: gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. p. 209.
Exhibitions: Musee Calvet, 1962, no. 22.

135. STUDY FOR "IMAGINARY STILL LIFE, GREEN". 1923.
After two years of increasing austerity, Gleizes still occasionally (DESSIN POUR "NATURE MORTE IMAGINAIRE.
indulged in an exuberant display of lively pattern. A 1920 drawing VERDATRE).
for this work is reproduced in J. Chevalier's Albert Gleizes et le Pencil. 10} x8i" (27x21 cm.).
Cubisme, Basel, 1961; a related gouache, entitled Three Themes, is Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 23": on reverse signed, dated and
in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and a inscribed to Hilla Rebay, 1938.
large oil (present whereabouts unknown) was exhibited at the Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Gleizes exhibition, Der Sturm, 1921. Provenance: from the artist, 1938.
130. VILLAGE ON THE RHONE. SERRIERES. Circa 1923. 136. IMAGINARY STILL LIFE, GREEN. 1924.
(PAYSAGE PROVENCAL, SERRIERES). (NATURE MORTE IMAGINAIRE, VERDATRE).
Oil on canvas, 41! x29+" (105 x75 cm.). Oil on board, 391 x29i" (101 x75 cm.).
Not signed or dated; on reverse "du paysage midi". Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 24".
Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris. Lent by tt adsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, The Ella
Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 21. Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection.
Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1954, no. 18. Exhibitions: 2eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1924.
Rene Gimpel Galerie, New \ ork, 1937, no. 24.
The Gleizes' spent much time in Serrieres, south of Lyon, where Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 24.
Gleizes established a second artist's community, Moly-Sabata, in Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 14.
1927. Literature: gray, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
p. 209.
131. THE SCHOOLBOY (L'ECOLIER). Circa 1924. By the time Gleizes painted the two Imaginary Still Lifes of 1924,
Oil on canvas, 34i x26+" (87,5 x67,5 cm.). his conceptual hierarchy of values was almost wholly formed and
Signed l.r. "Albert Gleizes". still life as a subject in itself was insignificant for he felt that
Lent by Mr. and Mrs. John Strauss, Glencoe, Illinois. every day objects precluded largeness of conception. An "imagi-
Provenance: Galerie de Yarenne, Paris. nary" still life, however, was another matter: it could reflect ideal
J. W. Faulkner, Chicago. relations, pure and non-imitative forms.
132. THE SCHOOLBOY (L'ECOLIER). 1924. 137. IMAGINARY STILL LIFE. GREEN, second version. 1924-36.
Gouache and tempera on canvas, 36i >:28i" (92 x73 cm.). (NATURE MORTE IMAGINAIRE, VERDATRE).
Not signed or dated. Oilon canvas, 39i x28i" (100 x73 cm.).
Lent by Musee Cantini, Marseilles. Not signed or dated.
Exhibition: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1954. Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 56.
Galerie Berry, Avignon, 1950, no. 11.
133. FAMILIAR THEME, STUDY FOR "IMAGINARY STILL LIFE.
BLUE" (PEINTURE FAMILIERE, DESSIN POUR "NATURE
MORTE IMAGINAIRE, BLEUE"). 1923. 138. SERRIERES. 1923.
Pencil, 101 x 7i" (27 x 19 cm.). Pencil, lOi x8i" (27 x21 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 23"; on reverse "No. 5) "Pein- Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes, Serrieres 23"; on reverse
ture familiere' Dessin mine de plomb 1923 pour Peinture a 1 Huile "Dessin mine de plomb "Sur Serrieres 1923' pour un peinture qui
app. a Alb Gleizes". appartient a Alb Gleizes No. 10".
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Y ork. Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New \ork.
Provenance: from the artist. 1938. Provenance: from the artist. 1938.
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139. COMPOSITION ACCORD, VIEW OF SERRIERES. 1924. 144. COMPOSITION. 1930-31.

(COMPOSITION ACCORD, VUE DE SERRIERES). Oil on canvas, 63 x39i" (160 x 100,5 cm.).
Oil on canvas, 40i x29" (103,5 x74,5 cm.). Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb. Gleizes 1930-31".
Signed and dated l.r. "A. Gleizes 24". Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris.
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. Provenance: Leonce Rosenberg, Paris.
Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie,New York, 1937, no. 20. Exhibition: Exposition d'Art Francais, National Museum of
Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 12. Western Art, Tokyo, 1961-62, no. 439.

145. STUDY FOR TRIPTYCH. 1930.
A. STUDY FOR LEFT PART OF TRIPTYCH.
This painting, the drawing which precedes it (no. 138) and the (ETUDE POUR TRIPTIQUE, PARTIE GAUCHE).
later gouache (no. 140) are three versions of the same real vista of Gouache on board, 13i x5}" (34 xl5 cm.).
the village of Serrieres, looking across the hilly village with its Signed and dated "Alb Gleizes 30".
church steeple to its bridge across the Rhone and the fields, trees
and hills of Isere on the far shore. B.STUDY FOR CENTER TRIPTYCH.
(ETUDE POUR TRIPTIQUE, CENTRE).
Gouache on board, 134 >;12i" (34 x31,5 cm.).
Signed and dated "Alb Gleizes 30".
140. SERRIERES. 1927.
Gouache, 81 x 6" (21,5 x 15 cm.). C.STUDY FOR RIGHT PART OF TRIPTYCH.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 27". (ETUDE POUR TRIPTIQUE, PARTIE DROIT).
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gouache on board, 131 x5i" (34 xl4,5 cm.).
Provenance: Hilla Rebay, Greens Farms, Connecticut. Signed and dated "Alb Gleizes 30".
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, 1938. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, Kings Point, New York.
Gift, Solomon R. Guggenheim, 1941. Provenance: Galerie 7, Paris.
Margit Chanin, New York.
There were a number of studies for wings of the great triptych of

141. FORMS, ADORATION. 1930.
1930-31 in which different color tonalities were explored, but this
Oil on canvas, 44i x32" (112 x81 cm.).
seems to be the only surviving study for the central portion which
Not signed or dated.
itself has been all but destroyed by moisture.
Lent by Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York.
Echoing an old Thomist axiom, Gleizes had always told his students
to paint the inner principles rather than the appearance of nature. 146. WINGS OF TRIPTYCH. 1930-31.
By the early thirties he was convinced that these principles were, A.LEFT WING (TRIPTIQUE, PARTIE GAUCHE).
in fact, God and that He was discernable in any aspect of nature. Oil on canvas, 63 x26" (160 x66 cm.).
Thus in this work and in the related gouache (no. 142), the painter Signed and dated 1.1. "Alb Gleizes 30-31".
reveals an essential identity between flowers and divine love.
B. RIGHT WING (TRIPTIQUE, PARTIE DROITE).
Oil on canvas, 63 x26" (160 x66 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1930-31".
142. GOUACHE. 1932. Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, Kings Point, New York.
Gouache, Hi x 10" (30 x25,5 cm.). Provenance: C. Renault, Puteaux.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 32" Margit Chanin, New York.
Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris.
During the late 20's, Gleizes became increasingly absorbed with
religious themes. His continuing studies of Romanesque architec-
ture, sculpture and frescoes (in preparation for his book. La Forme
143. SYMPHONY IN VIOLET. 1930-31.
et L'Histoire) already had given rise to a number of compositions
(SYMPHONIE EN VIOLET).
which are influenced by Autun and St. Savin.
Oil on canvas, 77 x51i" (196 xl31 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1930-31".
Lent by Rudolf Indlekofer, Basel.
Exhibition: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 29. 147. COMPOSITION, FOR "MEDITATION". 1932-33.
Literature: chevalier, j. Albert Gleizes et le Cubisme, Basel, (COMPOSITION POUR "MEDITATION").
1962, p. 51. Oil on canvas, 29i x49" (75,5 x 124,5 cm.).
Signed l.r. "Alb Gleizes 32-33".
Gleizes wished to infuse his large compositions of many elements Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
(typified by earlier works such as nos. 150, 151) with lyrical move-
ment. By applying curvilinear greys, which picked up surrounding Gleizes made his first paintings for "meditation" or "contempla-
color tonalities, he made color an active compositional force, turn- tion" in 1932-33 and in his personal hierarchy of valid subjects
ing the forms and causing them to create rhythmic thrusts and (the key to which is found in his illustrations to the Pensees of
depth in the picture plane. Pascal) he attached the greatest significance to these works. A
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drawing for this painting is reproduced in J. Chevalier s Albert This painting is a variation of the 1920 Woman with Black Glove,
Gleizes et le Cubisme, Basel, 1962, p. 22 and an etching is in the no. 122.
Pensees of Pascal, p. 68.
153. YELLOW LIGHT (LUMIERE JAUNE). 1933.

148. LIGHT (LUMIERE). 1932-33. Oilon canvas, 33i x44$" (84,5 x 114 cm.).
Oil on canvas, 44 x3(M" (112 x78 cm.). Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1933".
Signed and dated l.r. "Alh Gleizes 32-33". Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Lent by Leonard Hutton-Hutschnecker, New York. Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie,New York, 1937, no. 51.
Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York 1937, no. 50. Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 19.
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 23. Literature: GRAY, c. "Gleizes", Magazine of Art, October, 1950,
pp. 209-210.
"The problem of light", wrote Gleizes, "is a problem of faith. For
light is not concrete, it is perfectly metaphysical, being ineffable".
Believing that space, time and light were one and the same, he felt
154. PAINTING, MOVEMENT (PEINTURE MOBILE). 1932-33.
that if he could make color move, analagous to the flow in a rain-
Oil on canvas, 41 i x53i" (105,5 x 136,5 cm.).
bow's spectrum, he could approach the absolute.
Exhibitions: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 39.
149. GREEN-BROWN SPIRAL (SPIRALE VERT-BRUN). 1932-33.
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 35.
Oil on canvas, 66i x30j" (168 x78 cm.).
This composition exists as an etching in a limited edition of the
Pensees of Pascal.
Exhibitions: Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 26.
155. CRUCIFIXION. 1935.

Oil on canvas, 54 x36i" (137 x92 cm.).
150. COMPOSITION WITH SEVEN ELEMENTS, first version.
(LES SEPT ELEMENTS) 1924-25.
Lent by Musee de Dijon.
Oil on canvas, 56i x40l" (143,5 x 103,5 cm.).
Exhibitions: Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, 1936, no. 190,
Signed and dated "1925 Alb
l.r. Gleizes".
Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 28.
Marlborough Gallery, London, 1956, no. 34.
Exhibitions: L 'Art d'Aujourd'hui, Paris, 1925, no. 66.
Trente ans d'Art Independant, Paris, 1926. no. 1060.
A larger version of this crucifixion, from 1936, is in the collection of
Madame Gleizes.
This first version of Seven Elements is one in a series of large
compositions intended as studies for huge wall murals.
156. VIRGIN AND CHILD (LA VIERGE A L'ENFANT). 1935.
151. PAINTING WITH SEVEN ELEMENTS. 1924-34. Oil on canvas, 56 x37i" (142 x95 cm.).
(LES SEPT ELEMENTS). Not signed or dated.
Oilon canvas, 102 i x70j" (260 xl80 cm.). Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 24". Exhibition: Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 30.
Lent by Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris.

Exhibitions: Galerie Drouant-David, Paris, 1943, no. 29. This composition exists in several versions, one reversed, and was
Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 16. also adapted in ceramic tile by Anne Dangar. Although more literal
Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 31. and specifically iconographic than many works of this period, it
Literature: gleizes, a. Tradition et Cubisme, Paris, 1927, p. 205. nevertheless shows a loosening of painting technique.
(illustrated before final changes).
This is a close reworking of the first version, with the addition of 157. MATERNITY (MATERNITE). 1936.
circular rhythmic greys. The central element (derived from a 1924 Ink, 10} x7i" (27,5 xl8,5 cm.).
painting) is identified as "Grandeur of Man" in the illustration for Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 36".
Chapter 3 of the Pensees of Pascal. Still a third version exists, from Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Isadore Levin, Palm Beach.
1943, in which the center element is totally replaced by a series of
rotating spirals.
158. SKETCH FOR AIR PAVILION MURAL, PARIS EXPOSITION.
(ETUDE POUR LE PA VILLON DE L'AIR A L'EXPOSITION
152. SEATED WOMAN. 1934. DES ARTS, PARIS). 1937.
(FIGURE OVALE, CERCLE BRUN-BLEU-VERT). Gouache, Hi x25i" (28,5 x64 cm.).
Oil on canvas, 50 x33" (127 x84 cm.). Signed l.r. "Albert Gleizes 37".
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 34". Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lester Avnet, Kings Point, New York.
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. Provenance: Galerie 7, Paris.
Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 44. Margit Chanin, New ^ ork.
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Gleizes was commissioned to make two enormous murals at the Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris.
Paris Exposition of 1937, one for the Pavilion of the Air and the
other, with Survage and Leger, for the Union des Artistes. The
mural itself is in storage in the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de 163. COMPOSITION. 1939.
Paris. The central motif derives from a 1920 painting, informally Oil on canvas, 72 x58i" (183 xl48 cm.).
known as The Two Americans, to which Gleizes returned in 1924 Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 39".
and again in 1945. The theme was also executed in mosaic by Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Frank Perse. Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 42.
159. STUDY FOR "THE TRANSFIGURATION". 1939-41.

(ETUDE POUR "TRANSFIGURATION").
Gouache, 22+ xl5i" (57 x39,5 cm.). 164. STUDY, PAINTING FOR CONTEMPLATION. 1943.
Signed and dated l.r. "39^0-41 Albert Gleizes". (ETUDE POUR SUPPORT DE CONTEMPLATION).
Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris. Ink, 13| x9+" (34 x24 cm.).
This is a study for the central panel of an immense triptych in the Lent by Walter Firpo, Marseilles.
Musee des Beaux- Arts de Lyon. A related gouache of the same sub-
ject is in the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. These works
represent Gleizes' final attempt to reconcile traditional iconography

165. STUDY, PAINTING FOR CONTEMPLATION. 1943.
with the demands of his painting style in order to produce murals
(ETUDE POUR SUPPORT DE CONTEMPLATION).
understandable to a wide public. The iconography of the Trans-
Ink, 14ixll" (36x28 cm.).
figuration, however, had been largely forgotten and inclusion of its
traditional, but obscure, symbols only further alienated the artist
Lent by V\ alter Firpo, Marseilles.
from popular appreciation.
166. PAINTING FOR CONTEMPLATION, DOMINANT ROSE AND

160. SKETCH FOR ALADDIN (ETUDE POUR ALADIN). 1938.
Gouache, 17} xl0|" (44 x27 cm.).
GREEN (COMPOSITION, DOMINANTES ROSES ET VERTES).
1942.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 1938, Aladin".
Oil on burlap, 85i x52" (217 xl32 cm.).
Provenance: Gift, Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris, 1963.
161. FOUR LEGENDARY FIGURES OF THE SKY. 1939-40.
Literature: "Presence d'Albert Gleizes", Zodiaque, January,
(QUATRE PERSONNAGES LEGENDAIRES DU CIEL).
1952, pi. 16, p. 42.
Oil on canvas:
A. LEONARDO DA VINCI, 118i x50" (300 xl27 cm.).
B. aladdin, 122 x74i" (310 x 188 cm.). During the war, which made materials impossible to obtain, Gleizes
C. sinbad, 121} x74j" (308 x 189 cm.). painted on burlap, sizing the porous material with glue mixed with
D. icarus, 122 x74}" (309 x 189 cm.). paint. He had used burlap in some of his earliest paintings and now
Not signed or dated. found it congenial to his again vigorous touch, for it took the most
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. powerful strokes even while preserving the matte surface he so
Exhibition: Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, nos. 54, 55, valued.
56, 57.
Literature: labastie, a. "Albert Gleizes", Arts de France, 9,
1946, pp. 77-85. 167. SKETCH FOR "MOVEMENT WITH BLUE SPOTS". 1943.
"Presence d'Albert Gleizes", Zodiaque, January, (ETUDE POUR "MOUVEMENT A TACHES BLEUES").
1952, p. 37. Gouache, 4} x5+" (11 xl4 cm.).
While working on murals for the 1937 Paris Exposition, Gleizes and Lent by Walter Firpo, Marseilles.
Jacques Villon conceived the idea of executing a mural for the
auditorium of the Ecole des Arts et Metiers, Paris. Their plan was
to integrate four Villon panels dealing with the physical conquest 168. MOVEMENT WITH BLUE SPOTS. 1943.
of space with four Gleizes panels reflecting man's dream of space. (MOUVEMENT A TACHES BLEUES).
Although the mural was never executed, many studies for it were Oil on canvas, 45+. x61|" (115,5 xl56 cm.).
produced and Gleizes made a separate canvas of each of his subjects. Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 43".
Illustrations for the Pensees of Pascal show that the Leonardo Lent by Madame Gleizes, Paris.
figure developed into the theme "Grandeur of Man" while the Icarus Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 46.
panel was related to "the hateful ego" and suggests the fall of man. Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 32.
In 1963, The Gobelins studios of the French Government began to Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 43 (pi. XIII).
translate the work of the two friends into a tapestry.
169. COMPOSITION. 1943.

162. COMPOSITION. 1937. Gouache, 12 x8" (30,5 x20 cm.).
Gouache, 11 x8" (28 x20 cm.). Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 43".
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 37" Lent by Germaine Henry, Paris.
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170. FOR MEDITATION (POUR MEDITATION). 1944. Provenance: Hans Kleinschmidt, New York.
Oil on burlap, 25i x2H" (65 x54,5 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 44". The drawing is preparatory to an etching in the Pensees of Pascal
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. (Chapter III) (see no. 161). In a general way it relates to the Pascal
Exhibition: Chapelle du Lycee Ampere, Lyon, 1947, no. 61. phrase, "Le Cceur a ses raisons..."
171. IMAGE. 1944. 178. COMPOSITION, WHITE, BLUE, VIOLET. 1952.

Oil on canvas, 284 x234" (73 x60 cm.). (COMPOSITION, BLANC, BLEU, VIOLET).
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 44". Oil on board, 314 x20i" (80,5 x52 cm.).
Lent by Musee dArt et dTndustrie, St. Etienne. Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 52".
SKETCH DEDICATED TO ANNE DANGAR. 1944. Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 39.
172.
(ETUDE DEDIEE A ANNE DANGAR). Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 47 (pl.XV).
Gouache, 6 J x4|" (17 xll,5 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1944"; inscribed "pour ma
chere eleve Anne Dangar Saint Remy-de-Provence Avril 1945 Les 179. COMPOSITION, THE DRAGONFLY. 1951-52.
Mejades Albert Gleizes". (COMPOSITION, LA LIBELLULE).
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. Oil on canvas, 31+ x22i" (80 x57 cm.).
Not signed or dated.
173. THE SCHOOLBOY (L'ECOLIER), third version. 1944. Exhibition: Marlborough, London, 1956, no. 42 (misdated).
Oil on burlap, 391 x31i* (100 x80 cm.).

Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 44". After completing the etchings for Pascal, Gleizes' painting style
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. achieved a lightness and liquidity of touch approached only by the
New York and Bermuda series, (nos. 77 to 117).
This is a late return to earlier compositions, see nos. 131 and 132.
180. COMPOSITION ROSE. 1952.
174. FOR MEDITATION, WHITE. 1944. Oil on board, 29i x20i" (74 x51 cm.).
(POUR MEDITATION, BLANC). Not signed or dated.
Oil on burlap, 36i x294" (92 x75,5 cm.). Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Signed and dated l.r. "Alb Gleizes 44". Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 52.
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 38.
175. THE MISTRAL (VENT DU NORD). 1945. 181. GRAY-BROWN FIGURE (FIGURE GRIS-BRUN). 1952.
Oil on canvas, 39i x3H" (100 x80 cm.). Oil on board, 42 i x26l" (109 x66,5 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 1945". Not signed or dated.
Lent by Rene Deroudille, Lyon. Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
Literature: deroudille, r. "Albert Gleizes et les destinees du Exhibitions: Galerie Lucien Blanc, Aix-en-Provence, 1960, no. 54.
Cubisme", i 4 Soli, no. 2, 1955, pp. 6-7. (ill. as Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 40.
Ornement). Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 49 (pi. XVI).
To his typical tilting planes and circular motions, since the late 30's The austere effect of his lucid construction even within the flowing
Gleizes had increasingly added what he called "the cadence", dark ease of the late style, is always dominant, especially in a work of
emphasis to regulate the movement of his forms. somber colors.
176. COMPOSITION. 1948. 182. ARABESQUES. 1953.

Oil on board, 18 x 15" (46 x38 cm.). Oil on board, 284 x23+" (73 x60 cm.).
Signed and dated l.r. "Albert Gleizes 48". Not signed or dated.
Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris. Lent by Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris.
This is among the last paintings made before Gleizes' two year Musee Calvet, Avignon, 1962, no. 42.
project, the illustrations of the Pensees of Pascal. Musee de Grenoble, 1963, no. 51.
Literature: Albert Gleizes: Hommage, Lyon, 1954. pi. 8.
177. GRANDEUR OF MAN (GRANDEUR DE L'HOMME). 1950. Most of the titles of the late paintings, and this is his last, were
Ink, 124x9+" (32 x24 cm.). tentative. But Arabesques is a term he often used and it has refer-
Signed l.r. "A. G."; inscribed 1.1. "No 18. Ill Grandeur d'Homme". ences appropriate to his often stated admiration for the lyrical and
Lent by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Gift, passionate geometry of Islamic art (see "Arabesques, L'Entrelac
Mrs. Kay Hillman, 1964. Arabe", in Cahiers du Sud, special no., August-September, 1935).
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i i chateau DE lourmarin, Lourmarin, July-August, 1960, Albert
Gleizes, Art Sacre.
galerie 7, Paris, May 24-June 14, 1962, Exposition a" Albert Gleizes.
musee calvet, Avignon, Spring-Summer, 1962, Albert Gleizes, 1881-

1953. Texts by Lucien Blanc, Waldemar George, Fernand Rude.
MUSEE de grenoble, Grenoble, June 15-August, 1963, Albert Gleizes
et Tempete dans les Salons, 1910-1914. Preface by Gabrielle
galerie dalmau, Barcelona, 1916 (Fall), Albert Gleizes. Kueny.
galerie de l'effort moderne, Paris, 1920, Albert Gleizes. See
Bulletin de l' Effort Moderne, Paris, no. 1, 1924.
der sturm, Berlin, November, 1920, Albert Gleizes. 91st exhibition
of der sturm. Travelled to Stuttgart, Rome and New York. See

Der Sturm, Baden-Baden 54, 1954, p. 266.
chez la cible (povolozky), Paris, April-May, 1921, Albert Gleizes.
belmaison gallery of modern art, Wanamaker's, New York,

March 15-31, 1923, Exhibition of Recent Paintings by Albert GROUP I MilOtl I l\>
Gleizes.
kuhn and kuhn, Dresden, 1924, Albert Gleizes.
galerie vavin-raspail, Paris, 1925, Albert Gleizes Retrospective.
abstraction-creation, Paris, June 1-15, 1934, Exposition Gleizes:
Oeuvres de 1901-1934.
rene gimpel galerie, New York, December 15, 1936-January 15,
1937, Albert Gleizes. A Retrospective Exhibition. Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1902.
galerie drouant-david, Paris, May 20-June 5, 1943, Albert Gleizes. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1903.
Preface by Jean Chevalier. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1904.
galerie des carets, Paris, May 2-24, 1947, Albert Gleizes. Preface Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1906.
by Dom. Angelico Surchamp, o.s.B. Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1907.
chapelle du lycee ampere, Lyon, November 15-December 14, 1947, LA FRANgAlSE, Paris, January-February, 1908, Les Peintres de
Albert Gleizes, 50 Ans de Peinture. Preface by Marcel Michaud, "I'Abbaye".
extracts by Surchamp and Gleizes from Temoignages, 12 and 14. Exposition de V Art Francois, Spring, 1908, organized by Alexandre
galerie DES garets, Paris, April, 1948, Gleizes: 30 Gouaches, Mercereau for the Toison d'Or, Moscow.
Dessins et Ceramiques. Salon des Independants, Paris, 1910.
passedoit gallery, New York, October 10-November 5, 1949, Jack of Diamonds (Valet de Carreau), Moscow, 1st exhibition, 1910;
Albert Gleizes Retrospective Exhibition. 2nd exhibition, 1912.
galerie berry, Avignon, July 22-August 20, 1950, Albert Gleizes, Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1910.
Peintures 1915^18. Salon des Independants, Paris, 1911.
galerie moullot, Marseilles, September, 1950, Albert Gleizes. Brussels Independants: Delauny, Gleizes, Leger, Le Fauconnier,
chapelle de l'oratoire, Avignon, July 22-August 31, 1950, Pensees Segonzac, Brussels, June 10-July 3, 1911. Catalogue preface by
de Pascal sur I Homme et Dieu: 57 Eaux Fortes par Albert Apollinaire.
Gleizes. Preface by Albert Gleizes. galerie d'art ancien et d'art contemporain, Paris, November 20-
musee d'art et d'industrie, Saint Etienne, September, 1950, Pensees December 16, 1911, Exposition d' Art Contemporain. Catalogue
de Pascal sur I' Homme, et Dieu: 57 Eaux Fortes par Albert preface by Rene Blum.
Gleizes. Preface by Maurice Allemand. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1911.
librairie la hune, Paris, October 20-November 10, 1950, Pensees Salon des Independants, Paris, 1912.
de Pascal sur I'Homme et Dieu: 57 Eaux-Fortes par Albert Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912.
Gleizes. Introduction by Gleizes. SocieteNormande de Peinture Moderne, Rouen, opened May 6, 1912.
musee des beaux-arts de lyon, December 2-31, 1950, Pensees de 2eme Exposition.
Pascal sur I'Homme et Dieu, Illustrees de 57 Eaux-Fortes musee municipal suasso, Amsterdam, October 6-November 7, 1912,
Originales par Albert Gleizes. Preface by Rene Jullian. Moderne Kunst Kring. Catalogue preface, "La Sensibility Mo-
galerie colette allendy, Paris, November, 1951, Albert Gleizes. derne et le Tableau", by Henri Le Fauconnier.
galerie lucien blanc, Aix-en-Provence, November-December, 1954, galerie de la boetie, Paris, October 10-30, 1912, Salon de la
Retrospective Albert Gleizes. Preface by Andre Schoeller. Section d'Or. Catalogue preface by Rene Blum.
galerie mathias fels, Paris, 1956, Albert Gleizes. galerie berthe Weill, Paris, January 17-February 1, 1913, Gleizes,
Marlborough fine art, ltd., London, September-October, 1956, Metzinger, Leger. Catalogue introduction by J. Granie.
Albert Gleizes: Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings. Preface by Salon des Independants, Paris, 1913.
Juliette Roche Gleizes. International Exhibition of Modern Art (The Armory Show), New
galerie simone heller, Paris, September-October, 1958, Albert York, Chicago, Boston, 1913.
Gleizes. der sturm, Berlin, November, 1913, Expressionisten, Kubisten,
galerie lucien blanc, Aix-en-Provence, July- August, 1960, Albert Futuristen.
Gleizes, 1881-1953. galerie hans goltz, Munich, August-September, 1913, 2. Gesamt
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Ausstellung Neue Kunst. Catalogue texts by Hausenstein and belmaison gallery of modern art, Wanamaker's, New York,
Andre Salmon. March 9-31, 1922.
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1913. Catalogue preface by Marcel Sembat. ler Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1923.
der sturm, Berlin, September 20-October, 1913, Erster Deutscher Salon des Independants, Paris, 1923.
Herbstsalon. musee municipal, .Amsterdam, April-May, 1924, Exposition de
Salon des Independants, Paris, 1914. VEjfort Moderne.
Exposition Universelle, Lyon, 1914. galerie briant-robert, Paris, 1924, Gleizes, Valmier, Lurcat,
s. v. u. MANES, Prague, February-March, 1914, Moderni Umeni Marcoussis.
(Modern Art). 45th exhibition, catalogue preface by Alexandre 2eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1924.
Mercereau. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1924.
galerie andre groult, Paris, April 6-May 3, 1914, Exposition de galerie vavin-raspail, Paris, January 12-31, 1925, Section d'Or.
Sculptures de R. Duchamp- Villon; Dessins, Aquarelles d Albert Catalogue preface by Guillaume Dalbert.
Gleizes; Gravures de Jacques Villon: Dessins de Jean Metzinger. L'Art d'Aujourd'hui (L'Art Plastique Non-Imitatif), Paris, No-
Catalogue preface by Andre Salmon. vember 30-December, 1925.
der sturm, Berlin, July, 1914, Gleizes, Metzinger, Villon, Duchamp- 3eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1925.
Villon. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1925.
Carroll galleries, New York, to January 2, 1915, First Exhibition the Brooklyn museum, New York, November-December, 1926,
of Contemporary French Art. Preface by Frederick James Gregg. International Exhibition of Modern Art, arranged by the
CARROLL galleries, New York, to February 13, 1915, Second Ex- Societe Anonyme.
hibition of Works by Contemporary French Artists. Catalogue grand palais, Paris, 1926, Salon des Independants, Trente Ans d'Art
preface unsigned. Independant.
Carroll galleries, New York, March 8-April 3, 1915, Third Ex- 4-eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1926.
hibition of Contemporary French Art. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1926.
bourgeois galleries, New York, April 3-29, 1916, Exhibition of 5eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1927.
Modern Art, arranged by a group of European and American 6eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1928.
Artists in New York. Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1928.
montross gallery, New York, April 422, 1916, Pictures by Crotti, 7eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1929.
Duchamp, Gleizes, Metzinger. de hauke & Co., New York, April, 1930, Cubism (period 1910-1913).
Den Franske Utstilling, Oslo, November-December, 1916. Le Salon de Printemps, Nice, March 29-April 14, 1930. Catalogue
bourgeois galleries, New York, February 10-March 10, 1917, preface by Albert Gleizes, organized by Walter Firpo.
Exhibition of Modern Art, arranged by a group of European and Seme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1930.
American Artists in New York. leonce Rosenberg, Paris, April 25-May 25, 1932, Exposition
grand central palace, New York, April 10-May 6, 1917, New York d'Oeuvres Cubistes, Surrealistes et Abstraites.
Independents (Society of Independent Artists). galerie bonjean, Paris, May-June, 1932, L'Epoque Heroique du
bourgeois galleries, New York, November 11-December 11, 1917, Cubisme.
Exhibition of Modern Art. STUTTGART KUNSTGEBAUDE, Stuttgart, 1932.
ardsley studios, Columbia Heights, New York, to March 31, 1919, L'Art Rhodanien, Serrieres, September, 1932.
Lithographs by Fantin-Latour and Recent Paintings by Albert 12eme Salon des Tuileries, Paris, 1934.
Gleizes. Catalogue preface by Hamilton Easter Field. grand palais, Paris, January 20-March 4, 1934, Societe des Artistes
bourgeois galleries, New York, May, 1919, Annual Exhibition of Independants, (50th Anniversary).
Modern Art. Catalogue preface by Albert Gleizes. les expositions de "beaux-arts", Paris, March-April, 1935, Les
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1919. Createurs du Cubisme. Catalogue by Raymond Cogniat, preface
Salon des Independants, Paris, 1920. by Maurice Raynal.
galerie de la boetie, Paris, March, 1920, 2eme Salon de la Section Premier Salon de I' Art Mural, Paris, May 31-June 30, 1935.
d'Or. Travelled to Brussels and Amsterdam. Carnegie institute, Pittsburgh, October 15-December 6, 1936,
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1920. International Exhibition of Paintings.
Pennsylvania academy of fine ARTS, Philadelphia, 1920, Loan MUSEUM OF LIVING ART (a. E. GALLATIN COLLECTION), New York
Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Artists of the Modern University, New York, December, 1936. Catalogue by Jean
French School. Helion.
galerie Weill, Paris, December, 1920-January, 1921, Fauves, Cu- petit palais, Paris, June-October, 1937, Les Maitres de I' Art
bistes et Post-Cubistes. Independant, 1895-1937.
der sturm, Berlin, January, 1921, 93rd exhibition, Albert Gleizes, carnegie institute, Pittsburgh, October 14-December 5, 1937,
Jacques Villon, Louis Marcoussis. International Exhibition of Paintings.
Exposition Internationale des Arts Plastiques, Geneva, January, 1921. Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques, Paris, 1937.
museum of French art, New York, March 16-April 3, 1921, Loan l' association d'art mural, Paris, Troisieme Salon de I' Art Mural,
Exhibition: Works by Cezanne, Redon... and others. Catalogue June, 1938.
foreword by Forbes Watson. george wildenstein and Co., London, January, 1939, From the
der sturm, Berlin, September, 1921, Hundertste Ausstellung. Salon d'Automne.
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1921. musee galliera, Paris, March-April, 1939, De Vldee a la Forme.
galerie de l'effort moderne, Paris, 1921, Les Maitres du Cubisme. (Exhibition porza).
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berner KDNSTMDSEDM, Bern. May 6-June 4, 1939, Picasso, Braque, Detroit institute of arts, September 27-November 3, 1957:
Gris,' Leger,' Gleizes, Bores, Beaudin, Vines, Laurens. Virginia museum of art, December 13-January 15, 1958;
galerie de France, Paris, May 25-Jime 30, 1945, Le Cubisme 1911- san francisco museum of art, January 23-March 13, 1958;
1918. Catalogue preface by Bernard Dorival. Milwaukee art institute, April 11-May 12, 1958; The Col-
musee municipal d'art moderne, Paris, July, 1945, Salon des Re'alites lection of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lewis Winston.
Nouvelles. societe vivaroise des beaux-arts. Hotel de Ville de Privas, October

the London gallery, London, May, 1947, The Cubist Spirit in its 27-November 11, 1957, Albert Gleizes et les Peintres Vivarois
Time. et Rhodaniens. Introduction by Louis Cros.

galerie des garets, Paris, April 20-May 11, 1948, Gouaches par Paintings from the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, October 2,
Albert Gleizes; Ceramiques d'apres Gleizes par Anne Dangar. 1957-April 15, 1958, institute of contemporary art, Boston,
Palais des papes, Avignon, July 20-October 30, 1948, Exposition Massachusetts; columbus gallery of fine arts, Columbus,
d'Art Sacre. Ohio: Carnegie institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; walker
galerie colette allendy", Paris, February 27-March 15, 1951, art center, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Albert Gleizes. Marlborough FINE art ltd., London, October-December, 1957,
stedelijk van abbe museum, Eindhoven, March, 1951, De Europese XIX and XX Century European Masters.
Kunst. galerie knoedler, Paris, 1958, Les Soirees de Paris.
Palais du kursaal, Menton, August 3-October 1, 1951, ler Biennale the Brooklyn museum, New York, April 28-July 27, 1958, The
de Peinture de France. 1st prize to Gleizes. (Recreation of Menton Brooklyn Bridge.
Biennale, Gleizes room in Marseilles, October, 1951.) galerie fricker, Paris, March 13-April 9, 1959, Rythmes et Danses.
MDSEU de arte moderna DE Sao paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. October, musee national d'art moderne, Paris, July, 1959, L'Ecole de Paris
1951, /. Bienal. dans les Collections Beiges.
musee national dart moderne, Paris, May-June, 1952, L'Oeuvre du Marlborough fine art ltd., London, February-March, 1960, AVA"
XXe siecle. and XX Century Drawings and Watercolors.
societe des beaux-arts de dragutgnan, Draguignan, May-June 15, yale university art gallery', New Haven, Connecticut, May -June,
1952, 3eme Salon, Peinture et Sculpture. 1960, Exhibition by Yale Collectors.
Salon de Cavaillon, Cavaillon, November, 1952. Ecole de Paris, Art Decoratif. Tokyo, 1960. Dangar compositions
galerie pab. Ales, December 20-28, 1952, Gleizes, Picabia, Survage. after Gleizes.
musee national d'art moderne, Paris, January 30-April 9, 1953, musee national d'art moderne, Paris, November 4, 1960-January
Le Cubisme 1907-1914, Preface by Jean Cassou. 23, 1961, "Les Sources du XXe siecle", Les Arts en Europe de
hotel de ville, Avignon, February-March, 1953, Avignon Salon. 1884 a 1914.
ecole des beaux-arts, Paris, March-April, 1953, Exposition du musee national d'art moderne, Paris, July-September. 1961,
Cubisme aux Arts Traditionnels, "la lecon d' Albert Gleizes". Depuis Bonnard, and haus der kunst, Munich, 1961, Von
cimaise de parts, Paris, May 5-14, 1953, Les Peintres de I'Fcole de Bonnard Bis Heute.
Gleizes. international galleries, Chicago, September 15-October 7, 1961,
Salon des Independants, Paris, 1953. Modern Masters.
museu DE arte moderna DE sao paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, December, nationalgalerie, Berlin, September 24-November 19, 1961, Der
1953, II Bienal. Sturm.
moderna museets vanner, Stockholm, 1954, Cezanne Till Picasso. haus der kunst, Munich, 1961, Les Chefs d'Oeuvres des Collections
stuttgarter kunstkabinet, Stuttgart, November 24-26, 1954, 20 Privees Francois.
Kunst- Auktion, Sammlung Nell Walden. national museum of western art, Tokyo, November, 1961-
musee national d'art moderne, Paris, 1954, Le Dessin, de Toulouse- January, 1962, Exposition d'Art Francois, 1840-1940.
Lautrec aux Cubistes. Catalogue by Bernard Dorival. hotel estrine, St. Remy-de-Provence, July-August, 1962, Gleizes et
Marlborough gallery', London, 1955, Twentieth Century Masters. Disciples.
the university of Michigan museum, Ann Arbor, 1955, The Winston museum des 20. jahrhunderts, Vienna, September 21-November 4,
Collection. Kunst von 1900 bis Heute.

1962,
galerie de l'institut, Paris, March 18-April 13, 1955, Evocation de wallraf-richartz museum, Cologne, September 12-December 9,
I'Epoque Heroique. Introduction by W aldemar George. 1962, Europdische Kunst 1912.

musee d'antibes, Antibes, Summer, 1955, Tapisseries, Atelier J. de NEW YORK public library', New York, 1963, Stravinsky and the
la Baume-Durrbach. Tapestries, after Albert Gleizes. Theatre: A catalogue of Decor and Costume designs for stage
rose fried gallery', New York, October 17-November 26, 1955, productions of his works 1910-1962.
30 Works by 17 Modern Masters. universite de Paris, palais de la decouverte, Paris, January 20-
galerie de l'institut, Paris, March 16-April 5, 1956, Six Disciples February 17, 1963, Formes mathematiques, Peintres, Sculpteurs
de Gleizes. Including Rene Barlerin, Jean Chevalier, Albert Contemporains.
Coste, Henriette Gremeret, Maurice Gremeret and Rene Pascal. loeb student center, New York, March 6-20, 1963, Selected
kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, June 16-July 31, Works from the N. Y. U. Art Collection.
1957, Verkannte Kunst: Ausstellung der Ruhrfestspiele. galerie suillerot, Paris, June, 1963, Les Peintres Cubistes.
musee d'art et d'industrie, Saint Etienne, 1957, Art Abstrait, Les kaplan gallery', London, October-November 11, 1963, The Cubist
Premieres Generations (1910-1939). Catalogue by Maurice Painters.
Allemand. galerie romanet, Paris, November, 1963, Deux Cents Aquarelles et
galerie axdre bost, Valence, August 31-September 14, 1957, Dessins de Renoir a Picasso.
Autour de Moly-Sabata. galerie romanet, Paris, April, 1964, Quelques Tableaux parmi les
Autres.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
The bibliography divides into two groups : first, a complete list of works
by Albert Gleizes, including articles, books, unpublished manuscripts

and illustrated books and second, a selected
; list of works about Albert
Gleizes together with related source material, including articles, books,
unpublished manuscripts and those general studies of Modern Art
which contain significant material about the artist. Entries are arranged
chronologically. D.R.
\ltlllll> BY GLEIZES
"L'Art et ses representants. Jean Metzinger", Revue Independante, "The Impersonality of American Art", Playboy, New Y ork, nos. 4 and
Paris, September, 1911, pp. 161-172. 5, 1919, pp. 25-26. Translated by Stephen Bourgeois. Preface to
"Le Fauconnier et son ceuvre", Revue Independante, Paris, October, an exhibition of modern art at the Bourgeois Galleries, New \ ork,
1911. Unlocated article listed in Le Fauconnier bibbographies. in 1919.
"Les Beaux Arts. A propos du Salon d'Automne", Les Bandeaux d'Or, "Vers une epoque de batisseurs", Clarte (Bulletin Francois), Paris,
series 4, no. 13, 1911-1912, pp. 42-51. series 1, October-November (?), 1919.
"Cubisme devant les Artistes", Les Annates politiques et litteraires, [Letter to Herwarfh Walden, April 30, 1920], Der Sturm, Berlin,
Paris, December, 1912, pp. 473-475. A response to an inquiry. Nationalgalerie, September, 1961, p. 46.
"Le Cubisme et la Tradition", Montjoie, Paris, February 10, 1913, p. 4. "L" Allaire dada". Action, Paris, no. 3, April, 1920, pp. 26-32. Re-
Reprinted in Tradition et Cubisme, Paris, 1927. printed in Engbsh in Motherwell, Robert, ed. Dada Painters and
[Extracts from O Kubisme], Soyuz Molodezhi, Sbornik, St. Peters- Poets, New York, 1951, pp. 298-302.
burg, no. 3, 1913. With commentary. Reference from gray, "Dieu Nouveau", La Vie des Lettres, Paris, October, 1920, p. 178 ft*.
Camilla. The Great Experiment: Russian Art, 1893-1922, New "RehabiHtation des Arts Plastiques", La Vie des Lettres et des Arts,
York, Abrams, 1962, p. 308. Paris, series 2, no. 4, April, 1921, pp. 411122. Reprinted in
"Opinions (Mes Tableaux)", Montjoie, Paris, nos. 11-12, November- Tradition et Cubisme, Paris, 1927.
December, 1913, p. 14. "L'Etat du Cubisme aujourd'hui", La Vie des Lettres et des Arts,
"C'est en allant se jeter a la mer que le fleuve reste fidele a sa source", Paris, series 2, no. 15, 1922, pp. 13-17.
Le Mot, Paris, vol. 1, no. 17, May 1, 1915. "Ein Neuer Naturalismus? Eine Rundfrage des Kunstblatts", Das
"French Artists Spur on American Art", New York Herald, October Kunstblatt, vol. 6, no. 9, 1922, pp. 387-389. Reply to an inquiry.
24, 1915, part ir, pp. 2-3. An interview. "Perle", La Bataille Litteraire, Brussels, vol. 4, no. 2, February 25,
[Interview with Gleizes (and Duchamp, Picabia and Crotti)], The 1922, pp. 35-36. A poem, New York, 1916.
Literary Digest, New York, November 27, 1915, pp. 1224-1225. "Tradition und Freiheit", Das Kunstblatt, vol. 6, no. 1. 1922. pp.
"La Peinture Moderne", 391, New York, no. 5, June 1917. 26-32.
"The Abbey of Creteil, A Communistic Experiment", The Modern "La Peinture et ses Lois : Ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme", La J ie des
School, Stelton, New Jersey, October, 1918. Edited by Carl Lettres et des Arts, Paris, series 2, no. 12. March, 1923, pp. 26-73.
Zigrosser. "Jean Lurcat", Das Kunstblatt, vol. 7, no. 8, 1923, pp. 225-228.
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"L'Art Moderne et la Societe Nouvelle", Moniteur de V Academic "Le Retour a la Terre", Beaux-Arts, Paris, December 14, 1934, p. 2.
Socialiste, Moscow, 1923. Reprinted in Tradition et Cubisme, "Peinture et Peinture", Sud Magazine, Marseilles, no. 8, August (?)
Paris, 1927, pp. 149-161. 1935, Offprint.
"Oil va la peinture moderne?", Bulletin de TEffort Moderne, Paris, "Retour a l'Homme. Mais a Quel Homme?", December, 1935. Offprint,
no. 5, May, 1924, p. 14. Response to an inquiry. probably from Slid Magazine, Marseilles.
"La Peinture et ses Lois", Bulletin de VEffort Moderne, Paris, no. 5, "Arabesques", Cahiers du Sud, (special number), "LTsIam et l'Occi-
May, 1924, pp. 4-9; no. 13, March, 1925, pp. 1-4. dent", vol. 22, no. 175, August-September, 1935, pp. 101-106.
"A propos de la Section d'Or de 1912", Les Arts Plastiques, Paris, Article dated Serrieres d'Ardeche, November, 1934.
no. 1, January, 1925, pp. 57. [Statement], Abstraction-Creation, Art Non-Figuratif, Paris, no. 5,
"Chez les Cubistes: une enquete", Bulletin de la Vie Artistique, 1936, pp. 7-8.
Paris, vol. 6, no. 1, January, 1925, pp. 15-19. Response to an "La Question de Metier", Beaux-Arts, Paris, October 9, 1936, p. 1.
inquiry. "Art Regional", Tous les Arts a Paris, Paris, December 15, 1936.
"LTnquietude, Crise Plastique", La Vie dcs Lettres et des Arts, Paris, "Le Probleme de la Lumiere", Cahiers du Sud, vol. 24, no. 192, March,
series 2, no. 20, May, 1925, pp. 38-52. 1937, pp. 190-207.
"A l'Exposition, que pensez-vous du... Pavilion de Russie", Bulletin "Cubisme et Surrealisme: Deux Tentatives Pour Redecouvrir
de la Vie Artistique, vol. 6, no. 11, June 1, 1925, pp. 235-237. l'Homme", 2eme Congres International d'Esthetique et de Science
Response to an inquiry. de I'Art, Paris, 1937.
"Cubisme", La Vie des Lettres et des Arts, Paris, series 2, no. 21, 1926, La Signification Humaine du Cubisme, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1938.
pp. 51-65. Announced as French text of Kubismus, Bauhaus- Lecture delivered at Petit Palais, Paris, July 18, 1938.
bucher 13, 1928, written in September, 1925, at Serrieres. "Signification Humaine du Cubisme", Beaux-Arts, Paris, July 22,
"Cubisme (Vers une conscience plastique)". Bulletin de VEffort 1938, p. 6.
Moderne, Paris, no. 22, February, 1926, pp. 6-7; no. 23, March, "Tradition et Modernisme", Art et Artist, Paris, no. 37, January, 1939,
1926, pp. 4-6; no. 24, April, 1926, pp. 4-5; no. 25, May, 1926, pp. 109-115.
pp. 1-3; no. 26, June, 1926, pp. 1-3; no. 27, July, 1926, pp. 1^; "Artistes et Artisans", L'Opinion, Cannes, May 31, 1941.
no. 28, October, 1926, pp. 1-3; no. 29, November, 1926, pp. 1-3; "Spirituality, Rythme, Forme", Confluences: Les Problemes de la
no. 30, December, 1926, pp. 1-2; no. 31, January, 1927, pp. 1-3; Peinture, Lyon, 1945, section 6. Special number, edited by
no. 32, February, 1927, pp. 1-5. Extracts, announced as partial Gaston Diehl.
contents of Kubismus, Bauhausbiicher 13. "Apollinaire, la Justice et Moi", Guillaume Apollinaire, Souvenirs et
"L'Epopee. De la Forme Immobile a Forme Mobile", Le Rouge et

la Temoignages, Paris, Editions de la Tete Noir, 1946, pp. 53-65.
le Noir, Paris, October, 1929, pp. 57-99. The final French text of Edited by Marcel Adema.
Kubismus, Bauhausbiicher 13, 1928. "L'Arc-en-Ciel, Cle de FArt Chretien Medieval", Les Etudes Philoso-
"Charles Henry et le Vitalisme", Cahiers de I'Etoile, Paris, no. 13, phiques, new series, no. 2, April-June, 1946.
January-February, 1930, pp. 112-128. [Statement], Realites Nouvelles, Paris, no. 1, 1947, pp. 34-35.
[Preface to La Forme et I'Histoire], V Alliance Universelle, Paris, "PreRminaires a une Etude sur les Variations Iconographiques de la
April 30, 1930. Croix", Temoignages, Cahiers de la Pierre-qui-vire, October,
"Les Attitudes Fondamentales de l'Esprit Moderne", Bulletin de la 1947.
VII Congres de la Federation Internationale des Unions Intel- "Y-a-t-il un Art Traditionnel Chretien?", Temoignages, Cahiers de la
lectuelles, Cracow, October, 1930. Pierre-qui-vire, July, 1948.
[Preface to an Exhibition of Paintings by Gottfried Graf, Berlin, 1931]. "L'Art Sacre est Theologique et Symbolique", Arts, Paris, no. 148,
Quoted in Chevalier, "Le Denouement traditionnel du Cubisme, January 9, 1948, p. 8. Reprint of unlocated article by Gleizes,
2", Confluences, Lyon, no. 8, February, 1942, p. 193. "Autorite Spirituelle et Pouvoir Temporel" (1939^10).
"Civilization et Propositions", La Semaine Egyptienne, Alexandria, "Active Tradition of the East and West", Art and Thought, London,
October 31, 1932, p. 5. February, 1948, pp. 244-251. A tribute to Ananda K. Coomara-
"Moly-Sabata ou le Retour des Artistes au Village", Sud Magazine, swamy.
Marseilles, no. 1021, June 1, 1932. "Les Pensees de Pascal", Chapelle de VOratoire, Avignon, July 22-
[Statement}, Abstraction-Creation, Art Non-Figuratif, Paris, no. 1, August 31, 1950. Introduction by Gleizes.
1932, pp. 15-16. "Peinture d'Opinion et Peinture de Metier", V Atelier de la Rose,

"La Grande Ville et Ses Signes", La Liberte, Paris, May 7, 1933, p. 2. Lyon, June, 1951.
"Vers la Regeneration Individuelle", Regeneration, Paris, new series, "Reflexions sur l'Art Dit Abstrait et du Caractere de l'lmage dans la
no. 46, July-August, 1933, pp. 117-119. Non-Figuration, I", L' Atelier de la Rose, Lyon, October, 1951.
[Statement], Abstraction-Creation, Art Non-Figuratif, Paris, no. 2, "Reflexions sur l'Art Dit Abstrait et du Caractere de l'lmage dans la
1933, p. 18. Non-Figuration, II", L Atelier de la Rose, Lyon, January, 1952.

"Le Retour de l'Homme a la Vie", Regeneration, Paris, no. 49, "L'Esprit Fondamental de l'Art Roman", U Atelier de la Rose, Lyon,
March, 1934, pp. 7-12. September, 1952.
"Jeunesse", Regeneration, Paris, no. 51, May, 1934, pp. 4-7. "Mentalite Renouvelee, I", V Atelier de la Rose, Lyon, December,
[Statement], Abstraction-Creation, Art Non-Figuratif, Paris, no. 3, 1952.
1934, p. 18. "L'Esprit de Ma Fresque 'L'Eucharistie'", U Atelier de la Rose, Lyon,
"Agriculture et Machinisme", Regeneration, Paris, no. 53, August- March, 1953.
September, 1934, pp. 11-14. Enlarged version of article originally "Mentalite Renouvelee, II", L Atelier de la Rose, Lyon, June, 1953.
published in Lyon Republicain, January 1, 1932. "Presence d'Albert Gleizes", Zodiaque, Saint-Leger-Vauban, nos. 6-7,
"Le Groupe de l'Abbaye. La Nouvelle Abbaye de Moly-Sabata", January, 1952. Extracts from his written works.
Cahiers Americains, Paris, New York, no. 6, Winter, 1934, pp. "Conformisme, Reforme, et Revolution", Correspondances, Tunis, no.
253-259. 2, 1954, pp. 39^16. Preceded by a biographical note by Jean
Cathelin.
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"'Anne Dangar, a Potter', (a funeral elegy). La Belle Journee est Art et Production, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1933. Lecture delivered at
Passee", Zodiaque, Saint-Leger-Vauban, no. 25, April, 1955. \\ arsaw, French Embassy, for the Pobsh LInion Intellectuelle,
"Caracteres de l'Art Celtique", extracts from Gleizes', La Forme et April 24, 1932.
VHistoire, 1932. Reprinted in Actualite de l'Art Celtique, Ca- Art et Science, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1933; second edition, Aix, 1961.
hiers d'Histoire et de Folklore, Lyon, 1956, pp. 55-97. Lecture delivered at Lodz, Poland, April 28, 1932, and Stuttgart,
[Introduction to] jellett, mainie, The Artists' Vision, Dundalk, May 6, 1932.
Dundalgan Press, 1958, pp. 25^5. Written in 1948. Homocentrisme ; le Retour de V Homme Chretien; le Rythme dans les
Arts Plastiques, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1937.

Souvenirs, le Cubisme 1908-1914, Lyon, Cahiers Albert Gleizes 1,
l'Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes, 1957. Fragment from a

larger manuscript.
BOOKS BY GLEIZES
I \ll III ISIII l> MANUSCRIPTS BY <-l I iy.1 >

Du Cubisme, Paris, Figuiere, 1912. With Jean Metzinger.
Cubism, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1913. With Jean Metzinger. First
English edition.
O Kubisme, St. Petersburg, 1913. With Jean Metzinger. Translated by Contorsions, 1916. Manuscript of a novel, impressions of New York
E. Niesen. Reference from gray, Camilla. The Great Experiment: and Montreal, written on shipboard, en route to Spain.
Russian Art, 1893-1922, New York, Abrams, 1962, p. 308. L'Art a Travers VEvolution Generale (En Attendant la Victoire),
O Kubisme, Moscow, 1913. With Jean Metzinger. Translated by M. New York, 1917.
Voloshm. Reference from gray, Camilla. The Great Experiment: La Tortue Emballee (Poems) 1915-1918. Poems, New York, Barce-
Russian Art, 1893-1922, New York, Abrams, 1962, p. 308. lona, Bermuda.
Du Cubisme, Paris, Compagnie Francaise des Arts Graphiques, 1947. Le Cavalier du Dimanche (Cinema- Proses), 1915-1918. New York,
With Jean Metzinger. Foreword by Gleizes. Barcelona, Bermuda.
Du Cubisme, Geneva, 1918. Book unlocated, often listed in Gleizes Souvenirs. An account of 1915 arrival in New \ork. Undated frag-
bibliographies as Cubisme: recorded in hintze, Modern Konst ment.
1900-Totet, Helsinki, 1930, p. 353 as "newly revised edition by Souvenirs (Puissances du Cubisme), dated February, 1944. A thirty
Gleizes" [of -Du Cubisme]. page fragment.

Du Cubisme et desMoyens de le Comprendre, Paris, La Cible, Povo- Robert Delaunay, 1933. Revised in 1937 and 1945. Announced for
lozky, 1920. German edition: Vom Kubismus; die Mittel zu publication by Abstraction-Creation. Complete manuscript of a
Seinem Verstandnis, Berlin, Der Sturm, 1922. critical study.
La Mission Creatrice de V Homme dans le Domaine Plastique, Paris,

Povolozky, 1921.
La Peinture et Ses Lois: Ce Qui Devait Sortir du Cubisme, Paris,
1924; second edition, La Pense'e Universitaire, Aix, 1961. First

published in La Vie des Lettres et des Arts, Paris, March, 1923.
Poslannictwo Tworcze Czlowieka W Dziedzinie Plastyki, Praesens,
no. 2, Warsaw, 1927. Special number.
Tradition et Cubisme: Vers une Conscience Plastique. Articles et
Conferences 1912-1924, Paris, Povolozky, 1927. A collection of BOOKS ILLISTOATKI) BY GLEIZES
fifteen articles from various publications.
Peinture et Perspective Descriptive, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1927. Lec-
ture delivered to the Carnegie Foundation for the French Union
Intellectuelle, at Paris, March 22, 1927. allard, Roger. Le Bocage ou le divertissement des amants citadins
Kubismus, Bauhausbiicher 13, Munich, Albert Langen Verlag, 1928. et champetres, Paris, "ceuvres et jours" Figuiere, 1911. Illustrated
Vie et Mort de VOccident Chretien, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1930. First with woodcuts by Gleizes, dating from 1910.
published in the periodical, Cahiers de VEtoile, 1928, 1929. Suite des Bois d'Albert Gleizes pour Au Pays du Mufte, Paris, Edou-
Life and Death of the Christian West, London, Dennis Dobson Ltd., ard-Joseph, 1920.
1947. Foreword by H. J. Massingham; translated by Aristide Mes- tailhade, laurent. Au Pays du Mufle, Paris, Edouard- Joseph, 1920.
sinesi. 11 woodcuts by Albert Gleizes. dating from 1919.
Vers une Conscience Plastique: La Forme et VHistoire, Paris, Povo- mercereau, Alexandre. La Conque Miraculeuse, Paris, Povolozky,
lozky, 1932. 1922. 28 compositions by Albert Gleizes, dating from 1910, cut
Art et Religion, Sablons, Moly-Sabata, 1933. Lecture delivered at by P. A. Gallien.
Paris, Foyer de l'Association des Etudiants Chretiennes, March pascal, blaise. Pensees sur I'Homme et Dieu, Casablanca, Editions
21, 1931 and at Dresden, Galerie Neue Kunst Fides, April 13, de la Cigogne, 1950. Choix et classement de Genevieve Lewis.
1932. 57 etchings by Albert Gleizes.
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"Salon d'Automne, 1903", Alliance Republicaine, October 13, 1903. metzinger, jean. "Alexandre Mercereau", Vers et Prose, Paris, no. 27,
Unsigned review. October-December, 1911, pp. 122 IT.
raynal. "Salon d'Automne, 1904", La Vie, Paris, October, 1904. allard, ROGER. "Le Salon des Independants, 1912", La Revue de
lesigne, ERNEST. "Fraternite Laique, La Societe Ernest-Renan", France et des Pays Francais, March, 1912. Also printed in Cote,
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Moscow, no. 10, 1906. riviere, jacques. "Cubisme", Revue d'Europe et d'Amerique,
d'auray. "Images et Mirages", Europe Politique, Paris, January, 1908. March 1, 1912.
Review of Vildrac's poems. salmon, andre. Gil Bias, June 22, 1912. Announces exhibition of
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Toison, d'Or,Moscow, nos. 7-9, 1908, p. 15. Unsigned review. Marcel Sembat and Jules Louis Breton.
apollinaire, guillaume, "Salon des Independants", Ulntransigeant, raynal, Maurice. "Essai de Definition de la Peinture Cubiste",
Paris, March 22, 1910. Bulletin de la Section d'Or, Paris, October 9, 1912.
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no. 25, April-June, 1911, p. 94. A poem dedicated to Albert hourcade, Olivier. "Le Movement Pictural: Vers une Ecole Fran-
Gleizes. chisede Peinture", Paris-Journal, Paris, June, 1912. Also in
salmon, andre. "Salon des Independants", Paris-Journal, Paris, Revue de France et des Pays Francais, June, 1912, pp. 254-258.
April 21, 1911. vauxcelles, louis. "Section d'Or et Salle XI Salon d'Automne", Gil
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no. 2, June, 1911. Rosenthal, LEON. "Salon des Independants, les Salons de 1912",
PUY, Michel. "Les Independants", Les Marges, Paris, July, 1911. Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, May, 1912 ; June, 1912 ; July, 1912.
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Tronchet", Vers et Prose, Paris, no. 27, October-December, 1912. Text and title in Russian.
1911, p. 139. "Les Independants", Le Monde Illustre, Paris, no. 2879, March 30,
nayral, jacques, and mercereau, Alexandre. "Les Artistes de 1912, pp. 202-203. Unsigned.
Passy", Paris-Journal, Paris, October 17-30, 1911. "A Travers les Expositions, les Independants 1912", Art Decoratif,
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apollinaire, guillaume. "Die Moderne Malerei", Der Sturm, Berlin, fels, florent. "La Peinture au Salon d'Automne", Action, Paris,
vol. 3, nos. 148-149, February, 1913, p. 272. no. 5, October, 1920.
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la fresnaye, ROGER DE. "De Limitation de la Peinture et Sculpture", d'Albert)", 391, Barcelona, no. 14, November, 1920.
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boccioni, umberto. "II dinamismo futurista e la pittura francese", Lettres et des Arts, Paris, series 2, no. 3, January, 1921, pp.
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Genevieve Allemand, Paris: no. 171

Oliver Baker, New York: no. 40
Henri Benezit, Paris: no. 73

J. Camponogara, Lyon: no. 42
Rene Deroudille, Lyon: nos. 79, 175
J. W. Faulkner, Chicago: no. 131
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Taylor and Dull, New \ork: no. 82
Marlborough Fine Art, Ltd., London: nos. 4, 7, 148, 150, 155, 179
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York: no. 21
Gallery Andre Romanet, Paris : no. 109
Josefowitz Collection, Genova: no. 33
Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo: no. 45
The Cincinnati Art Museum: no. 117
Landesgalerie, Hannover: no. 35
Wadsw-orth Atheneum, Hartford: no. 136

The Trustees of The Tate Gallery, London : no. 123
Musee des Beaux- Arts, Yille de Marseille: no. 132
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Portrait of Albert Gleizes by Marcel Coen, Marseilles

Albert Gleizes in his library by Photo Lido
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THE SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK

M USEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE. PARIS

MUSEUM AM OSTWALL DORTMUND

SAX FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF ART

CITY ART MUSEUM OF ST. LOUIS

THE COLUMBUS GALLERY OF FINE ARTS

THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA. OTTAWA

ALBRIGHT-KNOX GALLERY, BUFFALO

THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO

Library of Congress Card Catalogue Number: 64-25186 Printed in The Netherlands

HARRY F. GUGGENHEIM. PRESIDENT

ALBERT E. THIELE. VICE PRESIDENT

H. H. ARNASON, VICE PRESIDENT. ART ADMINISTRATION

ELEANOR. COUNTESS CASTLE STEWART

MRS. HENRY OBRE

DANIEL CATTON RICH

linked with the painter. First and foremost, Gleizes is a

French artist, a founder of Cubism and an influence on

and his many theoretical writings were originally most

his ideas were given sympathetic consideration. Finally,

His key paintings, long since scattered far and wide

across the globe, are, at last, brought together in this

sufficiency of categories and of the damaging effect of generalizations. "Cubism" as a pigeon-

closeness or remoteness to an imaginary prototype.

logue have been prepared.

The reevaluation of Gleizes' contribution consists of two retrospective exhibitions, similarly

bv Daniel Robbins. Assistant Curator of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, liears of

My particular gratitude is due to Madame Albert Gleizes, whose enthusiasm,

M. Edouard Morot-Sir, French Cultural Counselor to the United States, kindly

assisted in the negotiations of certain loans.

LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION

Herbert M. Barrows, Ann Arbor, Michigan Pedro \ allenilla Echeverria, Caracas

Rene Deroudille, Lyon Richard S. Zeisler, New York

Madame Albert Gleizes, Paris Musee de Dijon

Josefowitz Collection, Geneva The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New \ ork

Edouard Labouchere, Paris Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Madame Ferdinand Moller, Cologne Saarland-Museum, Saarbriicken

Collection Lady Norton, London Nationalmuseum. Stockholm

Dr. Henri.' M. Roland, London

1900 'ft orked in his father's fabric design atelier.

1902 First exhibits at Societe Rationale des Beaux-Arts. Paris.

1905 Founder of the Association Ernest Renan.

formation of the Artists of Passy group.

Assists in the formation of the Section d'Or.

1914 Called into Army. First completely abstract works.

1915 Demobilized, married Juliette Roche and visits New \ork.

1917 Returns to New "i ork via Cuba. \ isits Bermuda.

1919 Returns to France. Spring.

1921 First painting students: early formulation of theories of picture construction.

1922-1926 Gradual withdrawal from Paris-centered art world:

increased interest in social and intellectual problems.

1927 Established Moly-Sabata. a second Utopian community of artists-craftsmen in Sablons.

1927-1928 Pochoirs. often recapitulating earlier paintings, are begun in an effort

to make reasonably priced art available to a wide public.

1939 Permanently moves to St. Remy-de-Provenee.

1947 Major retrospective exhibition at Lyon. Chapelle du Lycee Ampere.

1953 Died. Avignon. June 23.