The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 14, 2025

The Kitchen Garden at La Brunié

1941
(French, 1875–1963)
France, 20th century
oil on canvas
Unframed: 65 x 92 cm (25 9/16 x 36 1/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1964.95
© Artists Right Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Born Guston Duchamp, Jacques Villon was the brother of three artists: Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti.

Description

In this view of a distant kitchen garden, nature has been transformed into an intersecting network of abstract, geometric forms. Diagonal lines suggesting roads and fields in the foreground converge on the long, horizontal garden structure and tall trees in the distance. Transparent planes of prismatic color infuse the entire composition with dynamic energy. The artist was member of the Puteaux or Section d’Or (Golden Section) Cubists, who based their compositions on principles of scientific color theory and mathematics.
  • (Galerie Louis Carré, New York, 1949)
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 199 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 199 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 248 archive.org
    Robinson, William. “Nature Transformed.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 27. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 27.
  • Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
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    Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
    An Exhibition of Modern Art in Honor of Agnes Rindge Claflin. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (organizer) (April 30-June 4, 1965).
    Year in Review (1964). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1964-January 31, 1965).
  • {{cite web|title=The Kitchen Garden at La Brunié|url=https://www.clevelandart.org/print/art/1964.95|author=Jacques Villon|year=1941|access-date=14 March 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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