ALBERT GLEIZES

Few painters lived the intellectual adventures of the early twentieth century as intensely as Albert Gleizes. At the centre of the p ublic scandal over Cubism that broke out in Paris in 1911, he was with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York during the war and was one of the first European avant-garde artists to respond to the scale and vigour of New York life. Gleizes was also one of the few French painters of the 1920s to recognise non-representational painting as the logical development of Cubism.