Title: Portrait de l’éditeur Eugène Figuière
Description: Portrait de l’éditeur Eugène Figuière, also referred to as The Publisher Eugene Figuiere (Portrait de Figuière, L'Editeur Eugène Figuière, Portrait d'un Editeur, Portrait d'Eugène Figuière or Portrait of the Publisher Eugene Figuiere), is a painting created in 1913 by the artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. This work was exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, 1913 (no. 768) and Moderni Umeni, 45th Exhibition of SVU Mánes in Prague 1914 (no. 47), and several major exhibitions the following years. Executed in a highly Cubist idiom, the work nevertheless retains recognizable elements relative to its subject matter. The painting represents Eugène Figuière. Head of his own publishing company, Figuière strove to be identified with every modern development. In 1912 he published the first and only manifesto on Cubism entitled Du "Cubisme", written by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. In 1913 Figuière published Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques (The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations), by Guillaume Apollinaire. The painting, purchased directly from the artist in 1948, is in the permanent collection of the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon, France.
Author(s): Albert Gleizes