JACQUES VILLON (GASTON DUCHAMP-VILLON) (Damville 1875-1963 Puteaux) Portrait d'acteur (Félix Barré). Dry-point etching. 1913. Numbered in pencil "e;27/32"e; and signed "e;Jacques Villon"e;. Auberty & Perussau 199. Cat. Quebec 1992, no. 49. On laid paper with the watermark "e;BFK Rives Eug. Delâtre"e;. 40:31,5 cm. Excellent impression, with a lot of burr, of one of his most characteristic and most important compositions of the cubist period. To distinguish himself from his brothers, the artist Marcel Duchamp and the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, he changed his name to Jacques Villon. Early on Villon did drawings for various publications such as "L'Assiette au beurre", "Le Chat noir" and "Le Rire". In 1907 Gaston Duchamp-Villon began to produce some early Cubist works, a series of etchings. These experiments culminated in his great Cubist drypoints of 1913.