"Sulking Woman", 1900, is one of Villon's earliest aquatints and is characteristic of the style prevalent in Paris at the turn of the century. It reflects Villon's contact with the works of Toulouse-Lautrec and Pierre Bonnard.

Jacques Villon was born in Damville in Normandy in 1875. His real name was Gaston Duchamp, but he adopted the pseudonym Jacques Villon while a student in honor of the 15th century poet of satire. Villon himself contributed illustrations to satirical journals and periodicals from 1894 to 1910 as a means of livelihood.

His first color aquatints were published in 1899 and by 1913 he had come under the sway of Cubism. In that same year nine of his paintings were exhibited in the Armory Show in New York. By the 1920's his work had become quite abstract. His brothers were Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp.

He died in his studio in Puteaux, a Paris suburb, in 1963, a month before his 88th birthday.

Source: Bulletin, November-December 1974.