Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud)
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Story
A seated man takes shape through overlapping geometric planes, his form broken into angular facets of tan, brown, and muted color that suggest a figure on a balcony. The painting, titled Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud), was made in 1912 using oil, and it is held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, having entered the collection through the Louise and Walter Arensberg gift. The artist, Albert Gleizes (1881–1953), a French painter, worked within the Salon Cubism movement. Looking closely, the fractured shapes interlock so that the body and surrounding space seem to merge into a single structure of flat, angled surfaces, giving the portrait a sense of depth built entirely from geometry rather than traditional modeling or shading.
Where it works
Suited to living rooms and media rooms, and to boardrooms, as a vertical diptych.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, 1950-134-91