
Art Institute of Chicago
Song
Raymond Duchamp-Villon · 1908/09
Provenance
Ownership history
- Galerie André Groult, Paris, by 1914. Brummer Gallery, New York, by Jan. 1929; sold to the Arts Club of Chicago, Apr. 16, 1929 [letter from Alfred P. Shaw, President of the Arts Club of Chicago to Dr. Judith Zilczer, Aug. 19, 1977, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Dec. 9, 1940.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’Automne, Oct. 1–Nov. 8, 1909, cat. 462, as Chanson.
- Paris, Galerie André Groult, Exposition des sculptures de R. Duchamp-Villon, Dessins, Aquarelles d’Albert Gleizes, Gravures de Jacques Villon, Dessins de Jean Metzinger, Apr. 6–May 3, 1914, cat. 4.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d’Automne, Nov. 1–Dec. 10, 1919, cat. 544, as Chanson.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Trente ans d’art independent 1884–1914: Exposition retrospective, Feb. 20–Mar. 21, 1926, cat. 2928, as Chanson.
- New York, Brummer Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), Jan. 5–Feb. 9, 1929, cat. 40.
- The Arts Club of Chicago, Sculpture by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Mar. 29–Apr. 12, 1929, cat. 24.
- The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors, Jun. 2–Jul. 15, 1933, cat. 20.
- New York, Knoedler Gallery, Raymond Duchamp-Villon 1876–1918, Oct. 10–Nov. 7, 1967, cat. 10 (ill.).
- The Arts Club of Chicago, Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and The Arts Club of Chicago, Sept. 15–Nov. 1, 1986, cat. 3.
Literature
Published references
- Salon d’Automne, Exposition de 1909, exh. cat. (Sociéte Anonyme de L’Imprimerie Kugelmann, 1909), p. 92, cat. 462, as Chanson, 1908.
- André Salmon, Exposition de sculptures de R. Duchamp-Villon, Dessins, Aquarelles d’Albert Gleizes, Gravures de Jacque Villon, Dessins de Jean Metzinger, exh. cat. (Galerie André Groult, 1914), cat. 4.
- Salon d’Automne, Exposition de 1919, exh. cat. (Sociéte du Salon d’automne, 1919), p. 111, cat. 544, as Chanson, 1908.
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Sculpteur 1876-1918 (Imp. Crozatier, 1924), p. 41 (ill.), as Chanson.
- Sociéte des Artistes Indépendants, Trente ans d’art independent 1884–1914: Exposition retrospective, exh. cat. (La Société, 1926), p. 190, cat. 2928, as Chanson.
- Brummer Gallery, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Raymond Duchamp-Villon, exh. cat. (Brummer Gallery, 1929), cat. 40.
- Arts Club of Chicago, Sculpture by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1929), cat. 24.
- Forbes Watson “The Song, Raymond Duchamp-Villon,” The Arts 16 no. 4 (December 1929), p. 234 (ill.)
- Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Modern Sculpture and Drawings by Sculptors, exh. cat. (Arts Club of Chicago, 1933), cat. 20.
- Albert Elsen, “The Sculpture of Duchamp-Villon,” Artforum 6, no. 2 (October 1967): pp. 19-25, 20 (ill.).
- William C. Agee, Raymond Duchamp-Villon: 1876-1918, exh. cat. (Walker and Company, 1967), cat. 10, p. 40, fig. 18 (ill.).
- Daniel Robbins, “Duchamp-Villon at Knoedler’s,” The Burlington Magazine 110, no. 778 (Jan. 1968), p. 38, as Chanson.
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