Peinture à Trois Elements. by Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953

Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953
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Peinture à Trois Elements.

Stencil print in thirteen colours. 1920/27. Signed in pencil. Signed in pencil and dated '20. From the edition of c.50 impressions or less. Printed in Paris Pouyard under the close supervision of Gleizes in 1927/8. Issued by Galerie Povolosky, Paris 1927/28.
Ref: Loyer - Gleizes Les Estampes IV (3).

Excellent impression with exceptionally fresh colours. On smooth cream wove paper. Excellent condition - surface exceptionally unrubbed. Full margins. Sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 3/4ins. Image: 14 5/8 x 11 3/8ins. (373 x 290mm).

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The series of ten compositions in stencil prints which Gleizes drew around 1928 are are key works of the medium and an important demonstration of the aesthetic links between Cubism and graphic technique. Fine quality impressions have only very rarely appeared on the market in recent years.

Gleizes was probably the most intellectual and influential of the painters to join Braque and Picasso in the development of Cubism. He first exhibited with them in 1910 and by 1912 his studio had become the focal meeting-point for the whole circle. It was also in 1912 that as one of the co-founders of the Section d’Or cubist group he wrote the seminal tract ‘Du Cubisme - Of Cubism’ in which he set out to state in literary terms the aesthetic aims of the movement

In the mid 1920’s Gleizes, along with Picasso, became very interested in the newly-developing graphic medium of stencil printing. The appeal was that the cut forms of the stencil allowed an absolute clarity of form and the opaque inks a particularly dense and smooth type of surface without any of the translucence inherent in lithography. Exceptionally difficult to print the skill of a very few printers such as Poyard (and Saudre - see Severini no 52 in this catalogue) helped to create some of the most striking cubist graphic works.