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View of Paris
c. 1920
Albert Gleizes
Albert Gleizes (French, 1881–1953)
Drawings
View of Paris, c. 1920. Albert Gleizes (French, 1881–1953). Graphite and watercolor on wove paper; sheet: 10.9 x 10.1 cm (4 5/16 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2019.258 Albert Gleizes was among the early artists to experiment with Cubism after its invention by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. He focused primarily on modern life, such as the urban view seen here. The sheet presents a view across Paris extending into the far distance, punctuated by the Eiffel Tower in the distance and smoke pouring from a factory’s smokestack at left. With the artist Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes authored Du Cubisme (1912), the first major book explaining the Cubist movement.
- Maker/Artist
- Gleizes, Albert
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- graphite and watercolor on wove paper
- Medium
- graphite, watercolor, wove, paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 10.9 x 10.1 cm (4 5/16 x 4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed at lower right, in graphite: Gleizes
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2019.258
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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