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ALBERT GLEIZES Étude pour "Pensées" de Pascal.
Pen and ink and wash on paper, circa 1949. 320x240 mm; 12 5/8x9 1/2 inches. Initialed in ink, lower right.
Acquired Christie's, New York, March 7, 2007, sale 1809, lot 28, with a copy of the receipt; private collection, New York.
With—An impression of the etching "Pensées" de Pascal.
This is the original ink and wash study for the same-titled etching, also included in the lot.
Gleizes (1881-1953, see lots 250 and lot 251), with Jean Metzinger (1883-1956, see lot 249) wrote the first major text on the Cubist movement in 1912. Du "Cubisme" was also illustrated with works by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906, see lots 64-66), Fernand Léger (1881-1955, see lots 316 and 317), Francis Picabia (1879-1953, see lot 315), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973, see lots 220-248), and Georges Braque (1882-1963, see lots 266-271, 273-277), among others. As a young man, Gleizes exhibited at the Paris Salon d'Automne and was at the forefront of avant-garde stylistic and political movements as an artist and writer. n 1911, Gleizes was part of the small Cubist circle whose works scandalized the Salon des Indépendants. After World War I, Gleizes moved with his wife to New York, where he witnessed the irreverent art of the interwar years and continued to paint in a nonrepresentational style, though Cubism was considered old fashioned. By further exploring the limits of composition and color theory, Gleizes strengthened the public's interest in nonrepresentative art. In 1950, Gleizes illustrated Blaise Pascal's Pensees Sur l'Homme et Dieu having renewed interest in spirituality.
