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GASTON changed his name to Jacques Villon so that his disapproving father, a provincial lawyer, would not know that he was neglecting the law for art. Now, at 76, he has a solid place among France's old guard modernists. In such recent canvases as La Grande Faucheuse aux Chevaux he uses brighter colors than in early days, but sticks to his conviction that nature is most interesting when reduced to blocks...
...Juilliard School, 1928-37); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Starting on a novelist's career at the age of 46, he scored an immediate success with Helen, thereafter wrote 18 more novels in the same mold, using figures from legend and history (Galahad, Adam & Eve, Francois Villon, Venus) to satirize 20th Century manners & morals. At the end he was still writing his streamlined version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Working title: The Wife of Bath and Her Boy Friends...
...tastes do change. When Peter Blume's big, weird, neatly painted South of Scranton won the coveted Carnegie International prize 16 years ago, critics clucked and the public pooh-poohed. This year the Carnegie jury went overboard for a yet stranger painting by Paris Abstractionist Jacques Villon (TIME, Oct. 30). The Pittsburgh public, meanwhile, has caught up with Connecticut's Blume. When the ballots were counted, the popular prize went to his entry, The Rock...
...confused with British Humorist and Biographer D. B. Wyndham Lewis (The Hooded Hawk, Francois Villon...
...Name. Villon was born Gaston Duchamp. He took on the name "Jacques Villon" back in the '90s, when he was painting in secret on Montmartre and trying to convince his father, a stern notaire, that he was really attending law school. Two brothers and a sister eventually followed Jacques to Montmartre. One of them, a sculptor, called himself "Du-champ-Villon" but Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp braved whatever wrath was left in their disappointed father and painted under their own names...