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JEAN METZINGER (1883-1956)
Méditation
signed 'J. Metzinger' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 ¼ x 25 5⁄8 in. (92 x 65 cm.)
Painted circa 1906-1907
Méditation
signed 'J. Metzinger' (lower left)
oil on canvas
36 ¼ x 25 5⁄8 in. (92 x 65 cm.)
Painted circa 1906-1907
Provenance
(Possibly) Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 February 1914, lot 63.
Dr Philippe & Aline Marette, Paris, by whom acquired in 1953, and thence by descent; their estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 October 2013, lot 45.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Dr Philippe & Aline Marette, Paris, by whom acquired in 1953, and thence by descent; their estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 October 2013, lot 45.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
La Toison d'Or, nos. 7-9, Moscow, 1908, p. 62 (illustrated pl. IV, in an installation photograph of the exhibition).
A. Mittelmann, Jean Metzinger, vol. I, Paris, 2025, p. 62 (illustrated).
A. Mittelmann, Jean Metzinger, vol. I, Paris, 2025, p. 62 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Moscow, Osobnyak Khludova, Salon de La Toison d'Or, April - May 1908.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Le fauvisme ou «l’épreuve du feu», éruption de la modernité en Europe, October 1999 - February 2000, no. 112, p. 476 (illustrated p. 242; dated 'circa 1907').
Paris, L'Adresse Musée de la Poste, Gleizes - Metzinger, du cubisme et après, May - September 2012, p. 60 (illustrated; dated '1906'); this exhibition later travelled to Lodève, Musée de Lodève, June - November 2013.
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Le fauvisme ou «l’épreuve du feu», éruption de la modernité en Europe, October 1999 - February 2000, no. 112, p. 476 (illustrated p. 242; dated 'circa 1907').
Paris, L'Adresse Musée de la Poste, Gleizes - Metzinger, du cubisme et après, May - September 2012, p. 60 (illustrated; dated '1906'); this exhibition later travelled to Lodève, Musée de Lodève, June - November 2013.
Further details
This work is recorded in the archives of Bozena Nikiel.
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