Raymond Duchamp-Villon

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), French sculptor, who was one of the masters of the modern movement in the early 20th century. In 1910 he pursued an increasingly geometrical and abstract style. His head of Baudelaire (1911, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris) is starkly simplified in its ovals and clean lines. His famous sculpture Horse (1914, Musée National d'Art Moderne), half animal and half machine, is a daring abstraction that influenced later sculptors. His brothers, Marcel Duchamp and Jacques Villon (Gaston Duchamp, 1875-1963), were also artists.