Albert Gleizes (French, 1881 - 1953). "Composition Cubiste". Gouache on paperboard. c1920-1925. Signed lower right. Painted on the inside of a grey sketchbook cover. Initially influenced by the Impressionists, Gleizes was only twenty-one years of age when his work titled La Seine à Asnières was exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1902. The following year he was part of the first Salon d'Automne and soon came under the influence of Fernand Léger and Robert Delaunay. Gleizes' evolving cubism saw him exhibit at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris in 1910 then collaborate with Jean Metzinger to produce a theoretical essay about cubism that was published in 1912. In the fall of that year, he and Metzinger joined the Puteaux Group led by Jacques Villon and his brother Marcel Duchamp. In February 1913, Gleizes and other artists introduced the new style of painting to an American audience at the Armory Show in New York City. In the late 1930s, the wealthy American art connoisseur Peggy Guggenheim purchased a great deal of the new art in Paris including works by Albert Gleizes. She brought these works to the United States which today form part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Image copyright © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Overall size: 6 13/16 x 5 3/16 in. (173 x 132 mm). Image size: 6 5/16 x 4 7/8 in. (160 x 124 mm). [24980] |6000| {R100} (TL1) rzzz~tzzzz