Albert GLEIZES (1881-1953 )Le Mistral, Le Vent du nord or Ornement, 1945Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 100 x 80 cmProvenance : - Collection René Deroudille, Lyon acquired in 1956 (label on the back) . - Private collection, Neuilly-sur-Seine. Exhibitions: - Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), A retrospective exhibition by Daniel Robbins, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New-York, n°175, reproduced p. 113 (label on the back) . - Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953, Retrospective, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 15 December 1964 - 31 January 1965, no. 84 (label on back). - Albert Gleizes, 1881-1953, Retrospektive, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, March 13 - April 25, 1965, no. 84 (back label). Bibliography: - René Deroudille, Albert Gleizes et les destinées du Cubisme, i 4 Soli, n°2, 1955, pp. 6-7 (René Deroudille titles the work Ornement). - Anne Varichon, Albert Gleizes: Catalogue raisonné, Volume II, Paris, Somogy, 1998, n° 1795, reproduced p. 583. "To his typical inclined planes and circular movements, since the end of the 1930s Gleizes had increasingly added what he called "cadence", a dark emphasis to regulate the movement of his forms." (Albert Gleizes (1881-1953), A retrospective exhibition by Daniel Robbins, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New-York, no. 175, exhibition catalog, p. 97).