Song

Modern Art

1908/09

Raymond Duchamp-Villon
French, 1876–1918

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Modern Art

Artist: Raymond Duchamp-Villon
Title: Song
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1908–1909
Medium: Elm
Inscriptions: Signed: R. Duchamp-Villon
Dimensions: 53.3 × 94.6 × 47.9 cm (21 × 37 1/4 × 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of The Arts Club of Chicago
Reference Number: 1940.1173

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.
Arts Club of Chicago, Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and The Arts Club of Chicago, exh. cat. (The Arts Club of Chicago, 1986), no. 3.
Angelica Zander Rudenstine, The Guggenheim Museum Collection Paintings 1880-1945, (The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1976), vol. 2, pp. 682-683, fig. a (ill.).
Laure de Margerie, “Raymond Duchamp-Villon,” French Sculpture Census, (2014), http://frenchsculpture.org/en/sculpture/6320-song?rk=162.

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.

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.

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