Gleizes

His engagement with classicism preceded not only the Armistice but the start of the war in 1914 (if he ever really disengaged) and was far more motivated by his disgust with the popularizing of Cubism by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger (the latter a featured "classicist" in the exhibition) than by any social or political goals.

In the Great War's Wake Michael FitzGerald 2010

He took Gleizes as his model and enrolled in the school where Le Fauconnier and Metzinger taught.

From Shtetl to Château Dorment, Richard 2009

For Cubism cf. Gleizes et Metzinger, "du Cubisme," and Guillaume

Concerning the Spiritual in Art Wassily Kandinsky 1905

When one of his customers, John Drewe, sold his copy of a work by the cubist artist Albert Gleizes through Christie's for £25,000, giving him half, Myatt was hooked.

The Guardian World News Emine Saner 2011

This was going well until one customer, Drewe, called to say he'd just got £25,000 for the "Albert Gleizes" Cubist work Myatt had done him; he'd fooled Christie's into believing it was real.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

This was going well until one customer, Drewe, called to say he'd just got £25,000 for the "Albert Gleizes" Cubist work Myatt had done him; he'd fooled Christie's into believing it was real.

Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

Other regular visitors included the painters Gleizes and Duchamp, the composer Varese and foreigners such Ezra Pound, Richard Aldington and Stegan Zweig.

Club Troppo 2009