Gaston Duchamp dit Jacques Villon (1875 -1963) Maternité, 1930, by Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973). During the 1920s, Gaston Duchamp, known as Jacques Villon, put his personal career and his work on hold in order to execute a series of engravings after the Modern Masters for the Bernheim-Jeune gallery. For this commission and over a period of almost ten years, he interpreted in etching some fifty paintings by thirty-two artists (sometimes several paintings per artist), most of them his contemporaries such as Matisse, Braque and Picasso, or artists belonging to the previous generation such as
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