JEAN METZINGER (1883-1956)

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Lot 357 | JEAN METZINGER (1883-1956)
JEAN METZINGER (1883-1956)

Nature morte à la baguette de pain, bouteille et compotier

signed 'Metzinger' (lower left)

oil on canvas

130.5 x 89.3 cm. (51 3⁄8 x 35 1⁄8 in.)

Painted circa 1922







Provenance

Galerie de I'Effort Moderne [Léonce Rosenberg], Paris (by 1924)

Anon. sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 March 1990, Lot 54

Private collection, by whom acquired at the above sale



The late Bozena Nikiel confirmed the authenticity of this work





Literature

Galerie de L'Effort Moderne, Jean Metzinger, Album I, no. 374 (illustrated)

L. Rosenberg (ed.), Bulletin de I'Effort Moderne, Paris, July 1924, no.7 (illustrated, titled "Melon et compotier")

Jean Metzinger in Retrospect (exh. cat), The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, 1985-86, p.83, no. 120 (illustrated)







Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Melki, Les Cubisters, 1985
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