Henry Valensi - Artist Info

About Henry Valensi

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    Henry Valensi was a French painter, filmmaker, animator and art theorist born in Algiers on September 17, 1883 and died in Bailly on April 21, 1960. He was the founder of the musicalism movement and the author of a single abstract "cinépeinture" animated film, La Symponie printanière1. In 1912, he managed and organized the Salon de la Section d'Or alongside Jacques Villon, Pierre Dumont, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia. Next to Marcel Duchamp's "Nu descendant l'escalier", Valensi hangs "L'air autour que des sciieurs de long", which can be seen at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Lyon. In 1932, Henry Valensi and three other painters - Charles Blanc-Gatti, Gustave Bourgogne and Vito...

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