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ALBERT GLEIZES (Paris, December 8, 1881 - Avignon, June 23, 1953). "Lumiere Jeune", 1933. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. With label of the Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, on the reverse. Hist.: Collection Juliette Roche-Gleizes; Passedoit Gallery, New York (?); Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London; galerie Suzanne Feigel, Båle; galerie Françoise Tournié, Paris; galerie Félix Vercel, Paris; vente Paris, Drouot- Montaigne, 11 octobre 1989, no. 131 (repr.). Exp.: 1936-1937 New York, no. 51; 1943 Paris, no. 26 (?): 1947 Lyon, no. 27 (?); 1949 New York, no. 19; 1956 London, no. 31; 1964 New York, no. 153 (repr.): 1964-1965 Paris, no. 70 (repr.); 1965 Dortmund, no. 70 (repr.): 1969 Bâle, no. 40 (repr.); 1971 Courbevoie, no. 86; 1972 Paris, no. 14 (repr.). Exhibitions and publications: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 51. Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 19. Ostwell Museum, 1965. Mentioned in 1933 in issue 18 of Porza Nouvelles Briefes, p. 5, entitled Rhythmic Composition, the Yellows. As the oil painting is not reproduced in the 1943 Paris and 1947 Lyon catalogs, these references remain hypothetical. Work catalogued in the monograph "Albert Gleizes", Guggenheim Museum, New York, p. 95. Certificate of authenticity attached. Measurements: 89.5 x 114 cm; 114 x 138 cm (frame). "Young Light" is the title of this important work by Albert Gleizes, belonging to his mature period. Light is the great theme of this artist, who once wrote: "the problem of light is a problem of faith. Because light is not concrete but perfectly metaphysical, ineffable". The artist took the cubist experiments beyond the decomposition of forms and objects into geometric planes, considering space, time and light to be one and the same. This integration between material and immaterial reality is captured in "Young Light" (Lumiere jeune), a title that alludes to the rising sun and also to the opening of the chromatic spectrum of a rainbow. The circles evoke the idea of the absolute, emitting concentric waves on a still life that receives the first rays of dawn. During his early years, Gleizes worked in his father's industrial design studio in Paris. Finally, after completing high school, he spent four years in the army and then began his career as a painter, initially doing landscapes. His first works are framed in impressionism, with works such as "La Seine à Asnières", exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1902. The following year he participated in the first Salon d'Automne in Paris, and soon came into contact with Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger and Heri Le Fauconnier. In 1910 he joined Cubism, of which he was one of the first and most important theoreticians, together with Metzinger. That same year he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Three years later he participated in the collective of the Armory Show, in New York. During the war he enlisted again in the army, and after the war he moved to New York. He also traveled to Barcelona and Bermuda, and in 1916 he held his first individual exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona. Two years later we find him fully committed to the search for spiritual values, which will be reflected both in his painting and in his texts. In 1927 he founded in Sablons Moly-Sabata, a utopian community of artists and craftsmen, in a way a continuation of the Abbaye de Créteil that he had formed, together with other artists and writers, on the outskirts of Paris in 1906. In 1931, Gleizes participated in the Abstraction-Création committee that acted as a forum for international non-figurative art. By then, his work reflects the strengthening of his religious convictions and in 1932, in his book "La Forme et l'histoire" he examines Celtic, Romanesque and Oriental art. During these years he will give lectures in Poland and Germany, and will be hired to paint murals for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1937. Almost a decade later, between 1949 and 1950, he worked on illustrations for Blaise Pascal's book "Pensées sur l'homme et Dieu". In 1951 Gleizes was appointed jury of the Prix de Rome, and the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor. Considered a great renovator of religious art, in 1951 he produced his last great work, a fresco entitled "Eucharist" which he painted for the Jesuit chapel in Chantilly. Albert Gleizes is currently represented in the Guggenheim Museums in Venice and New York, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, the MoMA and the Metropolitan in New York, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Tate Gallery and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, among other collections around the world.

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ALBERT GLEIZES (Paris, December 8, 1881 - Avignon, June 23, 1953). "Lumiere Jeune", 1933. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated on the back. With label of the Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, on the reverse. Hist.: Collection Juliette Roche-Gleizes; Passedoit Gallery, New York (?); Marlborough Fine Art Ltd, London; galerie Suzanne Feigel, Båle; galerie Françoise Tournié, Paris; galerie Félix Vercel, Paris; vente Paris, Drouot- Montaigne, 11 octobre 1989, no. 131 (repr.). Exp.: 1936-1937 New York, no. 51; 1943 Paris, no. 26 (?): 1947 Lyon, no. 27 (?); 1949 New York, no. 19; 1956 London, no. 31; 1964 New York, no. 153 (repr.): 1964-1965 Paris, no. 70 (repr.); 1965 Dortmund, no. 70 (repr.): 1969 Bâle, no. 40 (repr.); 1971 Courbevoie, no. 86; 1972 Paris, no. 14 (repr.). Exhibitions and publications: Rene Gimpel Galerie, New York, 1937, no. 51. Passedoit Gallery, New York, 1949, no. 19. Ostwell Museum, 1965. Mentioned in 1933 in issue 18 of Porza Nouvelles Briefes, p. 5, entitled Rhythmic Composition, the Yellows. As the oil painting is not reproduced in the 1943 Paris and 1947 Lyon catalogs, these references remain hypothetical. Work catalogued in the monograph "Albert Gleizes", Guggenheim Museum, New York, p. 95. Certificate of authenticity attached. Measurements: 89.5 x 114 cm; 114 x 138 cm (frame). "Young Light" is the title of this important work by Albert Gleizes, belonging to his mature period. Light is the great theme of this artist, who once wrote: "the problem of light is a problem of faith. Because light is not concrete but perfectly metaphysical, ineffable". The artist took the cubist experiments beyond the decomposition of forms and objects into geometric planes, considering space, time and light to be one and the same. This integration between material and immaterial reality is captured in "Young Light" (Lumiere jeune), a title that alludes to the rising sun and also to the opening of the chromatic spectrum of a rainbow. The circles evoke the idea of the absolute, emitting concentric waves on a still life that receives the first rays of dawn. During his early years, Gleizes worked in his father's industrial design studio in Paris. Finally, after completing high school, he spent four years in the army and then began his career as a painter, initially doing landscapes. His first works are framed in impressionism, with works such as "La Seine à Asnières", exhibited at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1902. The following year he participated in the first Salon d'Automne in Paris, and soon came into contact with Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger and Heri Le Fauconnier. In 1910 he joined Cubism, of which he was one of the first and most important theoreticians, together with Metzinger. That same year he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants. Three years later he participated in the collective of the Armory Show, in New York. During the war he enlisted again in the army, and after the war he moved to New York. He also traveled to Barcelona and Bermuda, and in 1916 he held his first individual exhibition at the Dalmau Galleries in Barcelona. Two years later we find him fully committed to the search for spiritual values, which will be reflected both in his painting and in his texts. In 1927 he founded in Sablons Moly-Sabata, a utopian community of artists and craftsmen, in a way a continuation of the Abbaye de Créteil that he had formed, together with other artists and writers, on the outskirts of Paris in 1906. In 1931, Gleizes participated in the Abstraction-Création committee that acted as a forum for international non-figurative art. By then, his work reflects the strengthening of his religious convictions and in 1932, in his book "La Forme et l'histoire" he examines Celtic, Romanesque and Oriental art. During these years he will give lectures in Poland and Germany, and will be hired to paint murals for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1937. Almost a decade later, between 1949 and 1950, he worked on illustrations for Blaise Pascal's book "Pensées sur l'homme et Dieu". In 1951 Gleizes was appointed jury of the Prix de Rome, and the French government awarded him the Legion of Honor. Considered a great renovator of religious art, in 1951 he produced his last great work, a fresco entitled "Eucharist" which he painted for the Jesuit chapel in Chantilly. Albert Gleizes is currently represented in the Guggenheim Museums in Venice and New York, the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, the MoMA and the Metropolitan in New York, the National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Tate Gallery and the Thyssen-Bornemisza, among other collections around the world.

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