Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Note: The son and grandson of artists, Albert Huyot was a pupil of Diogène Maillart and Gustave Moreau. He was also a pupil of Matisse. Influenced by Cubism and Surrealism his early collages attracted the interest of Guillaume Apollinaire. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Tuileries, and also participated in the Grande Exposition in Brussels in 1910; in the same year he also spent some time in Russia.
From 1912 until around 1920, Huyot created numerous collages whose formal language anticipated the aesthetics of Dadaist collages (especially Kurt Schwitters). The French art historian Gérald Schurr assumes that Huyot's collages express what Guillaume Apollinaire called "physical cubism". At the groundbreaking "First International Art Exhibition", which took place in Düsseldorf in 1922, he was represented with numerous works in the French section.