List of works by Albert Gleizes

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Albert Gleizes, circa 1912 Albert Gleizes, portrait photograph, published in Les Peintres Cubistes, 1913.jpg
Albert Gleizes, circa 1912

This is a list of works by the French artist, theoretician, philosopher Albert Gleizes; one of the founders of Cubism and an influence on the School of Paris. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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The artistic career of Gleizes spanned more than fifty years, from roughly 1901 to the year of his death in 1953. He was both a prolific painter and writer. This incomplete list is a selection of some of Gleizes' better-known oil paintings, or includes those for which images are available. Also listed is an extensive selection of his writings; both books and articles. [5] [6] [7]

"Gleizes' individual development, his unique struggle to reconcile forces," writes the art historian Daniel Robbins, "made him one of the few painters to come out of Cubism with a wholly individual style, undeflected by later artistic movements. Although he occasionally returned to earlier subjects... these later works were treated anew, on the basis of fresh insights. He never repeated his earlier styles, never remained stationary, but always grew more intense, more passionate. [...] His life ended in 1953 but his paintings remain to testify to his willingness to struggle for final answers. His is an abstract art of deep significance and meaning, paradoxically human even in his very search for absolute order and truth." (Daniel Robbins, 1964) [1]

Paintings

ImageTitleYearDimensionsMuseumCountry
Paysage190253 × 64 cmFondation Albert GleizesParis
Le marché d'Abbeville190373 × 60 cmPrivate collection
Jour de marché en banlieue, Courbevoie190554 × 65 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Barque dans la Seine190854 × 65 cm Musée Roybet-Fould Courbevoie
Jour de marché à Bagnères-de-Bigorre190860 × 73 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Albert Gleizes, 1909, Bords de la Marne, oil on canvas, 54 x 65 cm, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon..jpg Bords de la Marne 190954 × 65 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Nu assis190973 × 61 cmMusée de Petit Palais GeneveSwitzerland
Portrait d'homme (Olivier Gleizes)190965 × 53.5 cmPrivate collection
Paysage classic191050 × 65 cmPrivate collection
Albert Gleizes, 1910, L'Arbre (The Tree), oil on canvas, 92 x 73.2 cm, private collection.jpg L'Arbre (The Tree) 191092 × 73.2 cmPrivate collection
Albert Gleizes, 1910, Femme aux Phlox, oil on canvas, 81 x 100 cm, exhibited Armory Show, New York, 1913, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston..jpg La Femme aux Phlox (Woman with Phlox) 191081 × 100 cm The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Albert Gleizes, 1910-12, Les Arbres, oil on canvas, 41 x 27 cm. Reproduced in Du "Cubisme", 1912.jpg Les Arbres1910 or 191241 × 27 cmPrivate collection
Paris, les quais191054 × 65.2 cmPrivate collection
René Arcos191060.3 × 38.3 cmPrivate collection
Femme a la cuisine (Woman in the kitchen)1911118.5 × 94.5 cmGallery ASADA
Albert Gleizes, La Chasse, 1911, oil on canvas, 123.2 x 99 cm.jpg La Chasse (The Hunt) 1911123.2 × 99 cm
Recoveredgleizes.jpg Le Chemin (Paysage à Meudon) 1911146.4 × 114.4 cmPrivate collection
Albert Gleizes, 1911, Portrait de Jacques Nayral, oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114 cm, Tate Modern, London.jpg Portrait de Jacques Nayral 1911161.9 x 114 cm Tate Modern London
Albert Gleizes, 1911, Paysage (Landscape), oil on canvas, 71 x 91.5 cm. Reproduced frontispiece catalogue Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona, 1912.jpg Paysage (Landscape)191171 × 91.5  cmLocation unknown
Albert Gleizes, 1911, Stilleben, Nature Morte, Der Sturm postcard, Sammlung Walden, Berlin. Collection Paul Citroen, sold 1928 to Kunstausstellung Der Sturm, requisition by the Nazis in 1937, and missing since.jpg Nature Morte (Stilleben) Still Life1911Dimensions unknownLocation unknown
La Cathédrale de Chartres191273.6 × 60.3 cm Sprengel Museum Hannover
Landscape (Paysage)191237.5 × 43.3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Landschaft bei Paris, Paysage pres de paris, Paysage de Courbevoie, oil on canvas, 72.8 x 87.1 cm, missing from Hannover since 1937.jpg Paysage près de Paris, Paysage de Courbevoie (Landschaft bei Paris)191272.8 × 87.1 cmMissing from Hannover Germany since 1937
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Le Depiquage des Moissons, Harvest Threshing, oil on canvas, 269 x 353 cm, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan.jpg Harvest Threshing (Le Dépiquage des Moissons) 1912269 × 353 cm National Museum of Western Art Tokyo
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Les Baigneuses, oil on canvas, 105 x 171 cm, Paris, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.jpg Les Baigneuse (The Bathers) 1912105 × 171 cmMusée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Les ponts de Paris (Passy), The Bridges of Paris, oil on canvas, 60.5 x 73.2 cm, Museum Moderner Kunst (mumok), Vienna..jpg Les Pont de Paris (The Bridges of Paris, Passy) 191258 × 72.5 cm Museum Moderner Kunst (mumok) Vienna
Albert Gleizes, 1912, Dessin pour L'Homme au balcon, Salon des Independants 1912, published in Du "Cubisme", 1912.jpg Dessin pour L'Homme au balcon1912Exhibited Salon des Indépendants 1912
Albert Gleizes, l'Homme au Balcon, 1912, oil on canvas, 195.6 x 114.9 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art.jpg Man on a balcony (l'Homme au Balcon) 1912195.6 × 114.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art
Moissonneurs, Dépiquage des Moissons (Variante)1912149 × 89 cmPrivate collection
Port marchand191290 × 116.5 cmArt Gallery of OntarioToronto
Albert Gleizes, 1912-13, Les Joueurs de football (Football Players), oil on canvas, 225.4 x 183 cm, National Gallery of Art.jpg Les Joueurs de football 1912-13225.4 × 183 cm National Gallery of Art Washington DC
Portrait (Head in Landscape)1912-1337.6 × 50.4 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Femmes cousant1913185.5 × 126 cm Kröller-Müller Museum Otterlo, the Netherlands
Drawing for Head in Landscape (Dessin pour Tête dans un paysage)191312.7 × 15.6 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Albert Gleizes, 1913, L'Homme au hamac, oil on canvas, 130 x 155.5 cm. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.jpg L'Homme au Hamac (Man in a Hammock) 1913130 × 155.5 cmAlbright-Knox Art GalleryBuffalo, New York
La Ville en fleuve191376 × 63 cmPrivate collection
Albert Gleizes, 1913, Les Bateaux de peche (Fischerboote), oil on canvas, 165 x 111 cm, exhibited Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1913-14, no. 770, Manes Moderni Umeni, Vystava, Prague, 1914, no. 44.jpg Les Bateaux de pêche (Fischerboote)1913165 × 111 cm Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Paysage avec moulin (Paisaje con molino)1913101 × 81.6 cmMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofíaMadrid
Landscape with a Windmill191356.5 × 39.4 cmPrivate collection
Albert Gleizes, 1913, Portrait de l'editeur Eugene Figuiere (The Publisher Eugene Figuiere), oil on canvas, 143.5 x 101.5 cm, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.jpg Portrait de l'éditeur Figuière (The Publisher Eugene Figuiere) 1913143 × 102 cm Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon Lyon
Albert Gleizes, 1914, Woman with Animals, oil on canvas, 196.4 x 114.1 cm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection.jpg Woman with animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon, La dame aux bêtes) 1913-14196.4 × 114.1 cm Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice
Femmes assises à une fenêtre1914Private collectionNew York
Albert Gleizes, 1914, Paysage Cubiste, oil on canvas, 97 x 130 cm, published in Der Sturm, 5 October 1920.jpg Cubist Landscape (Paysage cubiste, Arbre et fleuve) 191497 x 130 cmPublic auction, 3 December 2008 [8] Paris
Paysage cubiste191466 × 81.3 cmPrivate collection
Paysage près de Montreuil191473 × 92.5 cm Saarland Museum Saarbrücken, Germany
Paysage191473.3 × 92.3 cm Yale University Art Gallery New Haven
Portrait of Igor Stravinsky1914129.5 × 114.3 cm Museum of Modern Art New York
Woman at the piano1914146.4 × 113.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia
Albert Gleizes, 1914, Paysage avec un arbre (Landscape with Tree), oil on canvas, 100 x 81 cm, private collection.jpg Paysage avec un arbre (Landscape with Tree)1914100 × 81 cmPrivate collection
Paysage (New York)1914-15102 × 102 cmCollection Alain DelonSwitzerland
Albert Gleizes, 1914-15, Portrait of an Army Doctor (Portrait d'un medecin militaire), oil on canvas, 119.8 x 95.1 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.jpg Portrait of an Army Doctor (Portrait d'un médecin militaire) 1914-15119.8 × 95.1 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Albert Gleizes, 1914-15, Portrait de Florent Schmitt (Le Pianiste), pastel, 36 x 27 cm.jpg Portrait de Florent Schmitt (Le Pianiste)1914-1536 × 27 cmLocation unknown
Portrait de Florent Schmitt1914-15200 × 152 cmPrivate collection
Le Chant de guerre (Portrait de Florent Schmitt)1915101 × 101 cmMusée National d'Art ModerneParis
Musician (Florent Schmitt) (Un Musicien [Florent Schmitt])191559.7 × 44.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Retour, published in Le Mot, n. 20, 1 July 1915.jpg Retour de Bois-le-Prêtre191539 x 50 cm
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Chal Post, oil and gouache on board, 101.8 x 76.5 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.jpg Chal Post1915101.8 × 76.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Broadway, oil on board, 98.5 x 76 cm, private collection.jpg Broadway191598.5 x 76 cmPrivate collection
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Composition pour Jazz, oil on cardboard, 73 x 73 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.jpg Composition for "Jazz" (Composition pour "Jazz") 191573 × 73 cmPrivate collection
Broadway191598.5 × 76 cmPrivate collectionNew York
Albert Gleizes, 1915, Brooklyn Bridge, oil and gouache on canvas, 102 x 102 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.jpg Brooklyn Bridge 1915102 × 102 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Brooklyn Bridge191525 × 19 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)California
Brooklyn Bridge1915148.1 × 120.4 cmPrivate collection
Pyrénéesc.191564 × 80 cm Israel Museum Jerusalem
The Astor Cup Races (Flags), (Le prix de la coupe Astor, Les Drapeaux)191599.4 × 74.4 cmSolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumNew York
New York191692 x 71.4 cmPrivate collection
Danseuse191657 × 36 cmPrivate collection
Acrobates (Les Acrobates)1916120.6 × 84.5 cm National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia
Equestrienne (Sur une écuyère de haute école)1916101.8 × 76.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
On a Sailboat1916New Orleans Museum of Art
Portrait de Jean Cocteau1916116 × 79.5 cmFundación Telefónica
Spanish Dancer (Danseuse espagnole)1916101.3 × 76.4 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Street Scene in Bermuda191780.6 × 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
Bermuda191781 × 64.5 cmPrivate collection
Des clownsoil and sand on canvas1917103 × 76 cm Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Le Port (En el puerto)1917153 × 120 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid
Paysage (Les Bermudes)191792 × 73 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris
On Brooklyn Bridge (Sur Brooklyn Bridge)1917161.8 × 129.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
To Jacques Nayral191775.8 × 65 cm Columbus Museum of Art Columbus Ohio
Kelly Springfield1919102 × 76.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York
Albert Gleizes, 1920, Femme au gant noir (Woman with Black Glove), oil on canvas, 126 x 100 cm. Private collection.jpg Femme au gant noir (Woman with Black Glove) 1920126 × 100 cm National Gallery of Australia
Espace rythmé selon le plan1920 Museum of Grenoble Grenoble
Albert Gleizes, 1920, Figure, gouache on canvas, 91.4 x 76.2 cm, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.jpg Figure192091.4 x 76.2 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles
Albert Gleizes, Action, Cahiers Individualistes de philosophie et d'art, Volume 1, No. 1, February 1920.jpg Cover of Action, vol. 1, no. 11920
Albert Gleizes, 1920-23, Ecuyere, oil on canvas, 130 x 93 cm, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Rouen.jpg Ecuyère (Horsewoman)1920-1923130 × 93 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen Rouen
Busto de mujer192080 × 60 cmGalería Barbié BarcelonaSpain
L’Ecolier192092x 73 cm Musée Cantini Marseille
Albert Gleizes, c.1920, Figures planes, dimensions approximately 126 x 100 cm, location unknown..jpg Figures planes (Trois personnages assis)c.1920126 × 100 cm (approximate)
Albert Gleizes, 1920, Femme et enfant (Woman and child).jpg Femme et enfant (Woman and child, Frau und Kind)1920Published in Der Sturm, 5 October 1921
Albert Gleizes, Broom, An International Magazine Of The Arts, November 1921.jpg Untitledc.1920Published in Broom, An International Magazine Of The Arts, November 1921
Seated Womanc.192092 × 73 cmThe Israel Museum Jerusalem
Albert Gleizes, 1921, Composition bleu et jaune (Composition jaune), oil on canvas, 200.5 x 110 cm DSC00547.jpg Composition bleu et jaune (Composition jaune)1921200.5 × 110 cm
Composition192281 × 59.5 cmUrsulines MuseumMâcon
Madame Gleizes a la Tocque192273 × 60 cmPrivate collection
Peinture à Sept Eléments Rythmés1924-34216 × 181 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris
Figure Imaginaire1924160 × 69 cmPrivate collection
Composition with Seven Elements (Les sept elements)1924–1925143.5 × 103.5 cmPrivate collection
Le Centre noir1925268.5 × 354 cm Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon Lyon
Composition192894 × 70 cmStolen by the nazisPoland (missing)
Descent from the Cross192830 × 35.6 cm Cleveland Museum of Art Ohio
Panel for the room of Jacqueline Rosenberg1930–1931115 × 90 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris
Composition1930–1931160 × 100.5 cm Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris
Symphony in Violet1930–1931196 × 131 cmPrivate collectionSwitzerland
Composition with Seven Elements (Les sept elements)1924–1934260 × 108 cmMusée National d'Art ModerneParis
Composition for Meditation1932–193475.5 × 124.5 cmPrivate collection
Lumière (Light)1932–1934112 × 78 cmPrivate collection
Composition Rythmique (Les Bleus)1932–1934135.9 × 96.5 cm
Femme et Enfant1932–1934166 × 105 cmPrivate collection
Spiral brun et vert1932–1934168.2 × 77.7 cmPrivate collection
Support de Contemplation1932–1934141 × 111 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts du Palais CarnolèsMenton
Maternité, Mère et enfant1934168 × 105 cm Musée Calvet, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie d'AvignonAvignon
Elément central de Sept Eléments1935–1936170 × 85 cmPrivate collection
Femme et Enfant193599 × 75 cmPrivate collection
Crucifixion1935137 × 92 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon Dijon
Terre et Ciel1935145 × 145 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Mother and Child1936139.4 × 84.5 cmPrivate collection
Composition1937-38250 × 165 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne París
Pour l'esprit, Les verts, Composition1939183 × 148 cmPrivate collection
Contemplation1942217 × 132 cmPrivate collection
Supports de Contemplation1942217 × 132 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Portrait of Mrs. Walter Fleisher1943–1944208 × 132 cmPrivate collection
Painting with seven elements1943300 × 178 cmPrivate collection
Contemplation1944212 × 132 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne Paris
Contemplation1944212 × 132 cmPrivate collection
L'Etrange Musicien1944181 × 111 cmPrivate collection
Composition1945183 × 110 cmPrivate collection
L'Etrange musicien, 2eme état1945175 × 85 cmPrivate collection
Support de contemplation1947208.7 × 132.8 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Composition bleue194844.5 × 36.2 cmPrivate collection
Arabesques1951–195376 × 60 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon Lyon
Composition, La Libellule195280 × 57 cmFondation Albert GleizesParis

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<i>Man in a Hammock</i> Painting by Albert Gleizes

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Portrait of an Army Doctor is an oil-on-canvas painting created during 1914–15 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. Painted at the fortress city of Toul (Lorraine) while Gleizes served in the military during the First World War, the painting's abstract circular rhythms and intersecting aslant planes announce the beginning of the second synthetic phase of Cubism. The work represents Gleizes's commanding officer, Major Mayer-Simon Lambert (1870–1943), the regimental surgeon in charge of the military hospital at Toul. At least eight preparatory sketches, gouaches and watercolors of the work have survived, though Portrait of an Army Doctor is one of Gleizes's only major oil paintings of the period.

<i>Woman with Black Glove</i> Painting by Albert Gleizes

Woman with Black Glove is a painting by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. Painted in 1920, after returning to Paris in the wake of World War I, the paintings highly abstract structure is consistent with style of experimentation that transpired during the second synthetic phase of Cubism, called Crystal Cubism. As other post-wartime works by Gleizes, Woman with Black Glove represents a break from the first phase of Cubism, with emphasis placed on flat surface activity and large overlapping geometric planes.

<i>Cubist Landscape</i> Painting by Albert Gleizes

Cubist Landscape, also referred to as Tree and River and Paysage cubiste or Arbre et fleuve, is a Cubist painting created in 1914 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. Tree and River is one of Gleizes' last pre-World War I landscapes. A comparison with earlier works such as Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon (1911), Les Baigneuses (Gleizes) (1912), Harvest Threshing (1912) and Passy, Bridges of Paris (1912) demonstrates the artists' continuity with the theme of deep spatial vistas and wide panoramic views, though with a notable diminution of specific references to reality. The painting was reproduced in the German art and literary magazine Der Sturm October 1920.

<i>Bords de la Marne</i> Painting by Albert Gleizes

Bords de la Marne, also called Les Bords de la Marne and The Banks of the Marne, is a proto-Cubist oil painting on canvas created in 1909 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. In this work can be seen a departure from the representation of the observable world. The development of Cubist and abstract art in the work of Gleizes was necessarily a transformation from the synthetic preoccupation with his subject matter. The passage of Gleizes' painting from an epic visionary figuration to total abstraction was foreshadowed during his proto-Cubist period. Bords de la Marne measures 54 × 65 cm, and is currently in the permanent collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

References

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  2. Ministère de la Culture (France) – Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Albert Gleizes
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  4. Peter Brooke, Albert Gleizes, Chronology of his life, 1881–1953
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  8. Albert Gleizes, 1914, Paysage Cubiste, Sotheby's Paris, 3 December 2008