The National Gallery continues to purchase new works of art. In February 2008 an oil painting entitled CRUCIFICTION by Albert Gleizes. It measures 117.5 x 77.3cm and was purchased at Christie's London.
Albert Gleizes (1881- 1953) was a French painter and writer. Early in his painting career he showed an interest in a style of painting which derived from the Cubist Manner popularised by the Painter Picasso. In 1921 Gleizes joined with another French painter and writer named Jean Metzinger, they set out to define the Principles of Cubism in their book 'Du Cubisme'. The book was regarded as the most important exposition of the theoretical principles of the Cubist Aesthetic, which was a new concept in Art. Several Artists joined in to widen the publicising of the Cubist Doctrines initiated by Picasso and Braque.
In 1912 he was among those who founded the 'Section D'or exhibitions of Cubist works. Gleizes exhibited at the Armoury Show New York in 1931 and at the 1st Berlin Salon d'Autumne.
In 1917 while in the U.S.A. He experienced a religious conversion and subsequently wrote several books on the laws of Art in terms of Catholic truths and religious experiences in the middle ages.
Gleizes illustrated the Pensees of Pascel with fifty seven Etchings and in 1947 an exhibition of his works was held in retrospect in Lyon France.
This new acquisition 'CRUCIFICTION' in our National Gallery will be most interesting to viewers and will further enable them to place Cubism in the visual Arts of today.
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