Biography

Albert Gleizes was a French painter and writer.

Gleizes, a nephew of the painter Léon Comerre, was trained as a technical draftsman, was a co-founder of the Salon d’Automne and a member of the Section d’Or, and is considered a representative of Cubism. He underpinned his painterly work by publishing several writings on art history and art studies. Together with Jean Metzinger, for example, he wrote the treatise “Du Cubisme” in 1912 and thus used the value-free term “Cubism” for the first time. During the First World War he lived in the USA from the end of 1915.

Gleizes founded the craftsmen’s community Moly-Sabata in 1927, created murals for the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 and received the Grand Prix at the French Biennale in Menton in 1951. In the last years of his life he painted mainly religious motifs.

Gleizes died in Avignon in 1953.

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ARTWORKS Albert Gleizes

Composition - Pour l'Esprit - Les Verts
Composition – Pour l’Esprit – Les Verts, 1939
oil on canvas
183 x 148 cm
Albert Gleizes
Composition – Pour l’Esprit – Les Verts

1939

oil on canvas

183 x 148 cm

signed and dated lower right

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Provenance

  • Albert Gleizes, Paris
  • Juliette Roche-Gleizes, Paris (Madame Albert Gleizes)
  • Fondation Albert Gleizes, Paris
  • Sammlung Bahlsen, Germany and Switzerland
  • Privatsammlung, Switzerland

Exhibitions

  • 1947 Lyon, Chapelle du Lycée Ampère, Albert Gleizes – 50 Ans de Peinture, number 52
  • 1956 London, Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., Albert Gleizes – Paintings Gouaches Drawings, number40
  • 1960 Aix-en-Provence, Galerie Lucien Blanc, Albert Gleizes – 1881-1953, number 42
  • 1963 Grenoble, Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture, Albert Gleizes et Tempête dans les Salons, number 40 (illustrated)
  • 1964 New York, Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Albert Gleizes – A Retrospective Exhibition, number 163 (illustrated)
  • 1982 Paris, Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Albert Gleizes, number 54 (illustrated)
  • 1985 Caen, Musée des Beaux Arts, L’Art Sacré d’Albert Gleizes, number 30 (mit illustrated)
  • 1986 Airaines, Prieuré d’Airaines, Albert Gleizes, number 13
  • 1988 Pontoise, Musée de Pontoise, Albert Gleizes

Literatur

  • Fondation Albert Gleizes, Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre de Albert Gleizes, SOMOGY-EDITIONS D’ART, 1998, book volume II,
    number 1632, page 533
  • Nacenta, Raymond, School of Paris – The Painters and the Artistic Climate of Paris since 1910, New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT,
    USA, 1960, number 7, page 78f, illustrated in color
  • Peter Brooke: „Albert Gleizes, For and Against the Twentieth Century“ page 217 – 218, Herausgeber: Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2001
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L'île de la Grande Jatte
L’île de la Grande Jatte, 1907/1909
pastel and India ink on bistre paper
25 x 41.5 cm
Albert Gleizes
L’île de la Grande Jatte

1907/1909

pastel and India ink on bistre paper

25 x 41.5 cm

signed and dated lower right

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Provenance

Albert Gleizes, Paris Albert Gleizes Foundation, Paris Private collection, Switzerland

Literature

Fondation Albert Gleizes, Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre de Albert Gleizes, SOMOGY-EDITIONS D’ART, 1998, Volume I, Number 110, page 55

Jatte Livres et Cultures, Various authors, La Grande Jatte – Belle Isle en Seine, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 2005, illustration page 78f

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