Jacques VILLON (1875 - 1963). Still life, after Picasso. Aquatint in color on wove paper, signed lower left by Picasso, numbered 198/200. Edition Bernheim Jeune. Slightly yellowed, foxing, pitting, edges of folio slightly sunned. Reverse unstained and oxidized, pitting, brown band around edges. Framed. (Ginestet et Pouillon E 652) 37 x 49.8cm. Sheet: 50 x 65cm. Provenance: Estate of Monsieur Louis Thirion, furniture in the mansion built in 1923 by Gibert et Ogé, which has remained in the family ever since. Expert : Madame Sylvie COLLIGNON Jacques Villon, born as Gaston Duchamp, was a French painter and engraver involved in the Cubist movement, who later worked in both realist and abstract styles. Villon came from a prosperous, artistic family. His maternal grandfather, Mile Frédéric Nicolle, educated Villon and his siblings. To distinguish himself from his siblings, Villon adopted the pseudonym Jacques Villon in homage to the medieval French poet François Villon. Villon initially adopted a neo-impressionist style in his paintings. Around 1910, however, he began to develop his mature style, which combines a cubist use of flat, geometric forms. Jacques Villon was the brother of artists Suzanne Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp.