Albert Gleizes, Study for “Hunting”, 1911.

Pencil, watercolour, gouache,

ink and wash painting on paper fixed on cardboard,

20.2 x 16.2 cm.

Musée National d’Art Moderne,

Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris.

 

 

Gleizes’s work became absorbed, at the same time, with a certain religious fervour that he developed by establishing in his villa Moly-Sabata in Sablons an association of artists who shared the ambition of returning to art the notion of sacredness by avoiding the attractions of industrial production, which had, however, originally been a point of origin for his work. Fifty-seven etchings illustrating the Pensées of Pascal, which he created three years before his death, bear invaluable testimony to this late-discovered faith and remain impressive samples of the body of work that visionary Guillaume Apollinaire called “the unlimitedness of things”.