Jacques VILLON: The reader - Original signed lithograph

Jacques Villon : (1875-1963) is a french cubist painter, and is the brother of Marcel Duchamp. He chose the pseudonym de Villon in tribute to the poet François Villon. He started his artistic career with engraving and illustration. In the beginning of the 1900's, he is influenced by Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Some years later, he is part of the group of Puteaux. His work includes more than 700 canvases. Aged 82, he realised 5 stain-glass windows of the Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Metz. His works are included in the collections of the biggest museums in France, Japan, USA, Italy, Australia, Mexico, Portugal, Great Britain...

Evreux Museum (France)
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art (Japan)
Abbey Church of Conques (France)
Walker Art Center (The USA)
François Pinault Foundation (Italy)
Fabre Museum (France)
MacVal (France)
Societe Generale Collection (France)
FRAC Auvergne (France)
Das Museum Folkwang (Germany)
FRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (France)
The Bridgestone Museum of art Ishibashi Foundation (Japan)
Museo Tamayo (Mexico)
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (The USA)
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Portugal)
Deutsche Bank Art Collection (Germany)
Museum Abteiberg (Germany)
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes (France)
Nice Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC) (France)
The José Manuel Rodrigues Berardo Collection (Portugal)
The Slaughterhouses - FRAC Midi Pyrénées (France)
Marguerite and Aimé Maeght Foundation (France)
LAM (Lille Métropole Modern Art Museum) (France)
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) (The USA)
Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma (Finland)
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon (France)
FRAC Brittany (France)
Carnegie Museum of art (The USA)
Essl Museum (Austria)
Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris (France)
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea (GAM) (Italy)
Limousin Art Library + FACLIM (France)
National Gallery of Art, Washington (USA)
National Galleries of Scotland (United Kingdom)
Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Liechtenstein)
Bernard Magrez Cultural Institute (France)
Center Pompidou - National Museum of Modern Art (France)
Randers Kunstmuseum (Denmark)
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje (FYROM)
Brest Art Library (France)
Henie Onstad Museum (Norway)
Art library of Caen (France)
Thomas Neirynck Collection (Belgium)
UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art (The USA)
Sara Hildén Art Museum (Finland)
Art library, Angers (France)
National Center for Visual Arts (France)
Saint-Etienne Métropole Museum of Modern Art (France)
Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (France)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (The USA)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College (The USA)
Tate Collection (United Kingdom)
Caen Museum of Fine Arts (France)
Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada)
Ohara Museum of Art (Japan)
mglc (Slovenia)
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (México)
Michel Fedoroff Collection (Monaco)
Soulages Museum (France)
Gandur Foundation for Art (Switzerland)
Biedermann Museum (Germany)
Laurent Dumas Collection (Emerige) (France)
Rennes Museum of Fine Arts (France)