Editing Jean Crotti

{{short description|French painter}}
[[File:Jean Crotti, New York, circa 1915. (Photo by Paul Thompson).jpg|thumb|Jean Crotti, New York, {{circa|1915}}]]
[[File:Jean Crotti, 1915, Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (Sculpture made to measure), MoMA.jpg|thumb|Jean Crotti, 1915, ''Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (Sculpture made to measure)'', mixed media. Exhibited Montross Gallery 4–22 April 1916, New York City. Sculpture lost or destroyed. MoMA]]
[[File:Jean Crotti, 1915, Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (Sculpture made to measure).jpg|thumb|Jean Crotti, 1915, ''Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (Sculpture made to measure)'', mixed media. Exhibited Montross Gallery 4–22 April 1916, New York City. Sculpture lost or destroyed<ref>[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924065573929?urlappend=%3Bseq=463 Current opinion, Vol. LX, No. 6, June 1916, p. 431], Literary digest. New York: Current Literature Pub. Co., 1913-1925</ref>]]
[[File:Jean Crotti, 1916, L'harmonie nait du chaos, gouache on cardboard, 58.3 x 47 cm.jpg|thumb|Jean Crotti, 1916, ''L'harmonie nait du chaos'', gouache on cardboard, 58.3 x 47 cm]]
'''Jean Crotti''' (24 April 1878 &ndash; 30 January 1958) was a French painter.

Crotti was born in [[Bulle]], Fribourg, Switzerland. He first studied in [[Munich]], Germany at the School of Decorative Arts, then at age 23 moved to [[Paris]] to study art at the ''[[Académie Julian]]''. Initially he was influenced by [[Impressionism]], then by [[Fauvism]] and [[Art Nouveau]]. Around 1910 he began to experiment with [[Puteaux Group|Orphism]], an offshoot of [[Cubism]], and a style that would be enhanced by his association in [[New York City]] with [[Marcel Duchamp]] and [[Francis Picabia]].

A refugee from [[World War I]], he looked to America as a place where he could live and develop his art. In New York, he shared a studio with Marcel Duchamp and met his sister, [[Suzanne Duchamp]]. She was part of the [[Dada]] movement in which Crotti would become involved. In 1916, he exhibited [[Orphism (art)|Orphist]]-like paintings, several of which had religious titles that also included his ''Portrait of Marcel Duchamp'' and his much discussed ''Les Forces MÈcaniques de l'amour Mouvement'', created by using found objects.

In the fall of 1916, Crotti separated from his wife, Yvonne Chastel, and returned to Paris. He had begun a relationship with Suzanne Duchamp that would culminate in his divorce in 1919 and immediate marriage to Suzanne. An artist in her own right, she would greatly influence Jean Crotti's painting. In 1920, he produced one of his best known works, a portrait of [[Thomas Edison]].  He participated in the 1925 ''Exposition International'' in Paris and the International Exhibition of Modern Art at the [[Brooklyn Museum]] in 1926–1927. Over the ensuing years, he would create numerous paintings and be the subject for several solo exhibitions at major galleries in England, France, Germany, and the United States.

Crotti died in Paris.

Jean Crotti's heirs donated his personal papers to the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, where they can be consulted by researchers.<ref>[http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/collection/crotjean.htm Jean Crotti Papers, 1910-1973]. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref>

In 2011, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art showed an exhibition, ''Inhabiting Abstraction'', including important examples from every significant phase and development in the realm of abstraction that Crotti explored, as well as one-of-a-kind works such as "Parterre de reve" (1920), in which he framed his painting palette and then signed it.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Yau|first=John|title=Jean Crotti: Inhabiting Abstraction|journal=The Brooklyn Rail|date=April 2011|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2011/04/artseen/jean-crotti-inhabiting-abstraction}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071226222432/http://www.jean-crotti.org/ Website of Jean Crotti (by Jean Carlo Bertoli)]
* [https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/jean-crotti-papers-7559/biographical-note Jean Crotti papers, 1913-1973, bulk 1913-1961], Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
* [https://www.aaa.si.edu/search/collections?edan_q=crotti Jean Crotti, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution]

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