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Fremont, Pierre (A member of the Puteaux Group. The Puteaux Group was the name applied to a group of European artists and critics associated with an offshoot of Cubism known as Orphism. The group was formed around 1911 by gathering regularly to discuss their views at the home of Jacques Villon in Puteaux, which was at that time a village in the western outskirts of Paris, France.
The group's name was adopted by them in order to distinguish themselves from the narrower definition of Cubism developed earlier by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the Montmartre quarter of Paris. They were critics of analytical Cubism on the ground that it lacked human interest and they re-introduced an interest in colour which led on in 1912 to Orphism. They came to prominence in the wake of their controversial showing at the Salon des Indépendants in the spring of 1911.
Some members of the Puteaux Group were:
Guillaume Apollinaire - (1880-1918), Italian
Robert Delaunay - (1885-1941), French
Marcel Duchamp - (1887-1968), French
Raymond Duchamp-Villon - (1876-1918), French
Roger de la Fresnaye - (1885-1925), French
Albert Gleizes - (1881-1953), French
Frantisek Kupka - (1871-1957), Czech
Henri Le Fauconnier - (1881-1946), French
Fernand Léger - (1881-1955), French
Louis Marcoussis - (1878-1941), Polish
Jean Metzinger - (1883-1956), French
Francis Picabia - (1879-1953), French/Spanish
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes - (1884-1974), French
Jacques Villon - (1875-1963), French
Alexander Calder -(1898-1976), American
Jeanne Rij-Rousseau - (1870-1956), French)
Pendant, bronze, oval, cord hole at top centre; one side of the pendant is decorated with an abstract design in relief, the other side of the pendant is decorated with an artist's palette, top, and a goblet and plate, bottom in between which is inscribed CAMILLE / RENAULT / PUTEAUX all in relief.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 51642
Creation/Production
Fremont, Pierre
Date: 1925 ca
Acquisition
Gift, 22/8/2006
Given by Miss Mabel Pakenham-Walsh
Measurements
Length
(cm): 5.3
Width
(cm): 3.6
Length
(in): 2
Width
(in): 1
Techniques
cast
forming
Applied Art
engraved
decoration
Applied Art
Material
bronze
Location
In store
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