Charmless (Sans Attrait)
c. 1902
Medium
graphite and brown wash with touches of blue wash, blue pencil, and green pencil on wove paper laid down on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 16.1 × 12.7 cm (6 5/16 × 5 in.) mount: 34.1 × 27.6 cm (13 7/16 × 10 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Edith Tanenbaum Rudolf Collection
Accession Number
2018.26.27
About the Artist
Jacques Villon
Jacques Villon, born Gaston Émile Duchamp on July 31, 1875, in Damville, Normandy, hailed from a family brimming with artistic talent. As the eldest of six children, he grew up alongside his brothers Raymond Duchamp-Villon, a pioneering sculptor, and Marcel Duchamp, the renowned Dadaist, as well as his sister Suzanne Duchamp, also a painter. Their maternal grandfather, Émile Frédéric Nicolle, a pr...