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...second brother, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, had turned to sculpture and in only a dozen-odd works advanced to the front rank of early 20th century sculptors before his death in 1918, at 42, of blood poisoning contracted at the front. His crowning achievement is The Horse, combining in one sculptural metaphor both horse and machine...
...Gaston Is No Name." Trailbreaker for the brothers, and the one who in the end has had the longest sustained achievement, is the eldest, christened Gaston, but who quickly changed his name to the more romantic Jacques Villon ("Gaston is no name for anyone, let alone a painter,'' says Marcel). Sobersided and nicknamed "Grandpa" by the family, Jacques Villon has spent a lifetime fishing in the still, deep pools of his own sensibility...
...Wyndham Lewis, British humorist (The .Stuffed Owl) and biographer (François Villon...
...Vagabond King (Paramount) provides a multimillion-dollar answer to a question that nobody has been asking: Where are the snores of yesteryear? In 1901, the short, unhappy life of François Villon, the notorious balladist of 15th century France, was rewritten by Playwright Justin McCarthy as a long, claptrappy rapier romance that held the stage for decades and made E. H. Sothern the most famous scenery-chewer of his time...
...Painting Prize ($2,400): to France's Jacques Villon, 80 (TIME, June 6, 1955), who showed 38 paintings. Early Cubist Villon (who changed his name from Duchamp to hide his early art activity from his stern Normandy father) is a member of a long-famous painting family, which includes his brothers, Cubist Sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp. For years Jacques Villon was out of the limelight, working as a newspaper cartoonist and engraver. He began achieving belated recognition when he won first prize in the 1950 Carnegie International...