Jacques Villon 1957 Lithograph / Art Exhibition Poster. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Jacques Villon (1875-1963) French. 'La Luttle' (The Fight) Villon was a well known cubist painter who was on the first artists to experiment with abstraction. Overall Size: 29 1/4 x 19 1/4 in. Sight Size: 28 5/8 x 18 5/8 in. #1448 . Jacques Villon is known for Cubist painting-abstraction, printmaking. A painter and printmaker, Jacques Villon was known for his Cubist-style works, and is especially noted by art historians for his creation of a purely graphic language for Cubism. He first came to the attention of the American public when his work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show, which introduced modernism to the United Sates. All of his work sold at this exhibition. He was from a cultured family in the Normandy region of France, and was much influenced by his maternal grandfather, Emile Nicolle, who gave him early artistic training. Villon was born with the name of Gaston Emile Duchamp, and was the older brother of artists Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Honoring the French medieval poet, Fran?ois Villon, and so as not to be confused artistically with his siblings, he changed his name to Jacques Villon. He moved to Paris with his brother, Raymond, in 1894, and enrolled in law school at the University of Paris in order to satisfy his father's wish that he study something practical and not only pursue his interest in art. Living in the bohemian atmosphere of Montmartre where many artists were active, Villon quickly lost interest in law studies and in 1904 turned to the Acad?mie Julian for art education. He took jobs with Parisian newspapers doing graphics, cartooning and posters. In 1903, he along with Henri Lebasque, Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard and other modernist-leaning painters organized the Salon d'Automne, which exhibited work earning them the name of Fauves (wild beasts) for their paintings that were aggressively garish in color and abstract in composition.