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1951

The Universe

Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp)

French, 1875 - 1963

Even toward the end of his career, Villon reused techniques and styles he had practiced many years earlier. This print, which is based on a 1920 painting, shows that he returned to color aquatint, of which he had been a master since the 1890s, and that he also repeated the use of "constructive decomposition," a system that he had introduced in 1920.

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