1 The main source for Gleizes' life is the unpublished Souvenirs in the Musée National d'Art Moderne. See also my own Albert Gleizes For and Against the Twentieth Century; Pierre Alibert: Gleizesbiographie (to 1930); and Daniel Robbins: Formation and Maturity of Albert Gleizes (to 1920).
2 Account of the Abbaye de Créteil in Sénéchal: Abbaye de Créteil.
3 "Vers une époque de bâtisseurs" in Clarté nº 32, 11 septembre 1920.
4 Extracts from Allard's articles are given in Fry: Cubism, pp.62-4. Apollinaire's article is in Apollinaire: Chroniques d'Art, pp. 158-9.
5 The studio was taken over by Léger after Le Fauconnier's departure from Paris.
6 Gleizes' account of these salons has been published in 'Souvenirs: le Cubisme, 1908-1914', Cahiers Albert Gleizes, Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes, Lyon, 1957. Reprinted, Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes, Ampuis, 1997.
7 In 'Jean Metzinger', La Revue Indépendante, n°4, sept 1911.
8 Tomkins: Duchamp, p.83
9 There is an account of the debate, giving substantial extracts, in Patrick F. Barrer: Quand l'art du XXe siècle était conçu par les inconnus, pp.93-101.
10 All three collaborated, for example, in a journal called La Vie Mystérieuse which specialised in 'magie, cartomancie, graphologie, spiritisme, astrologie, magnétisme'. There is no evidence that Gleizes shared these particular interests. Nor is there very much evidence to suggest that Gleizes shared his friends' interest in Celtic nationalism.
11 Apollinaire: Méditations esthétiques les peintres Cubistes, 1965 ed., p. 76.
12 From this point onwards Juliette Roche-Gleizes' unpublished Mémoiresare an important general source.
13 'C'est en allant se jeter à la mer que le fleuve reste fidèle à sa source', Le Mot, n°17, 1/5/1915.
14 Conférence faite au Twillight [sic] Club de New York, novembre 1915, unpubld ms.
15 I had ascribed this letter to 1916 on the basis of internal evidence, but Pascal Rousseau has found what appears to be the same letter in the Henri Barzun acrhive at Columbia University, NY, where it is dated 24th August 1917 (P.Rousseau: L'âge des synthèses L'oeuvre d'Albert Gleizes à Barcelone, 1912-1916 in C. Briend et al: Le Cubisme en majesté, Albert Gleizes, exhibition catalogue, Musée Picasso, Barcélone; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 2001, pp 171-2)
16 'La Peinture Moderne' in 391, n° 5, 5 June, 1917.
17 Dom Angelico Surchamp: 'L'itinéraire pictural et spirituel d'Albert Gleizes' in Albert Gleizes, Le Cubisme et son dénouément dans la tradition, exhibition catalogue, Lyon 1947, p.6. About the same time the American non-representational painter, Mark Tobey, had a similar experience in connection with Marcel Duchamp: 'Je me rappelle un soir, après une soirée passée au studio de Marcel Duchamp, pendant que j'attendais le train, je me demandais s'il pouvait exister quelque chose de plus grand que l'art. Cette idée m'a hanté pendant plusieurs jours durant lesquels je pensais énormément à l'expression "l'amour de Dieu". Qu'est-ce que cela peut signifier pour une personne comme moi? Cela m'a amené à prier pour en apprendre plus sur cet état profond.", quoted in Julie Oeming Badice: '"Les deux forces" de Mark Tobey', La Pensée Bahaie, n° 110, printemps 1990, p.9. Given that Gleizes frequented Duchamp's soirées it is possible that he might have played a role in Tobey's experience.
18 Alibert: Gleizes, p.129.
19 Juliette Roche Gleizes: Mémoires, 1920-25 and ibid: 'Albert Gleizes en son temps', Zodiaque, n° 100, April 1974.
20 There is an account in Green: Cubism and its Enemies, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1987, p.179.
21 Account of Jellett and (to a rather lesser extent) Hone in Arnold, Bruce:Mainie Jellett and the Modern Movement in Ireland, Yale University Press, New Haven and London,1991. Account of Colette Allendy in Frémont, Marguerite: La vie du Dr René Allendy, 1889-1942, Climats, Castelnau le-Lez, 1994.
22 Gleizes: La peinture et ses lois, ce qui devait sortir du Cubisme, Paris 1924, p.41
23 The argument is given in the French text of Kubismus published as 'L'épopée, de la forme immobile à la forme mobile', Le Rouge et le Noir, 1929, reprinted in Puissances du Cubisme, Editions Présence, Chambéry, 1969. This may be consulted on the present website.
24 The very moving date and circumstances of Pozonansky's death have been communicated to me by Jean François Delaunay. He died of blood-poisoning (une septicémie) contracted while working as a stretcher bearer at Lourdes.
25 'L'inquiétude, crise plastique', La Vie des Lettres et des Arts, 2nd series, n° 20, May 1925, pp.38- 52.
26 The best general account of Moly Sabata is Dubois, André: Anne Dangar et Moly Sabata, dissertation prepared for the University of Lyon, 1971. Text available from the Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes.
27 According to Pouyaud in a talk he gave in 1970 Les sept étapes d'Albert Gleizes sur la voie métaphysique, ms in Pouyaud archive, Ampuis.
28 The draft of a letter giving his views to a group of students and probably written in 1933 is in the Gleizes archive in the Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, catalogued as an essay under the title 'Hitler'. See also in the same archive the correspondence with the German engraver Gottfried Graf.
29 Gleizes' account in the Souvenirs has been published as Albert Gleizes en 1934, Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes, Ampuis, 1997 and Le pouvoir des mots-clefs, Association des Amis d'Albert Gleizes, Ampuis, 1993. These may be consulted on the present website.
30 There is an account in Fabre, Gladys: Herbin, exhibition catalogue, Musée d'Art Moderne, Céret, 1994; ADAGP, Paris, 1994.
31 Léonce Rosenberg to Gleizes, 15/[11?]/34. Many of Rosenberg's letters to Gleizes are in the Gleizes archive in the Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne.
32 He gives an account of life in St Rémy in 'Chronique des Méjades' inAlbert Gleizes à Saint-Rémy, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Alpilles, Saint-Rémy de Provence, 1990.
33 J.R.Gleizes: Mémoires 1940, le Père Jérôme.
34 A history of the Comité National du Folklore is given in a special edition of L'Echo des Provinces, Sept-Oct 1941.
35 Preface by Thomas de Romefort to Joseph Olivier: 'Jeunesse du rythme dans la musique traditionnelle', Atelier de la Rose, N° 12, Feb 1954.
36 Both have been republished in Gleizes: Puissances du Cubisme.
37 Account in Surchamp: L'Art Roman, rencontre entre Dieu et les hommes.
38 Régamey and the Lyon exhibition in the Gleizes-Chevalier correspondence, Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne.
39 Reflected in her correspondence, published as Anne Dangar: Lettres à la Pierre-qui-Vire.
40 de Montrond, Henri: 'Art sacré et théologie', Etudes, dec 1951.
41 There is an account of the project written by various of the people involved with it in Gleizes et al: 'La Fresque "L'Eucharistie"' d'Albert Gleizes, Atelier de la Rose, n° 9, March 1953. Reprinted in ibid, Association de Amis d'Albert Gleizes, Ampuis, 1995.