Lot 338
  • 338

Jean Metzinger

Estimate
280,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Jean Metzinger
  • CARAFE ET CARTES À JOUER
  • Signed Metzinger (towards lower right); signed Metzinger, dated Janvier 1919 and titled (on the reverse)
  • Oil on canvas
  • 31 7/8 by 23 3/4 in.
  • 81 by 60.2 cm

Provenance

Galerie L'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Mme Simon Heller, Paris
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph F. Colin (acquired from the above in 1955 and sold: Christie's, New York, May 10, 1995, lot 52)
Private Collection (acquired at the above sale and sold: Christie's, New York, May 5, 2004, lot 289)
Private Collection

Exhibited

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Le Cubisme 1907-1914, 1953, no. 197 (titled Nature morte, as dating from 1914)
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Selection of French Art 1906-1954, 1955
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Colin Collection, 1960, no. 54, illustrated in the catalogue
Louisville, Kentucky, The Speed Art Museum, Corot to Picasso: French Paintings and Drawings at The Speed Art Museum, 2002-03

Condition

Work is in good condition. A circular craquelure pattern is stable throughout. Surface slightly dirty. Under UV light: Strokes of Inpainting visible along the edges especially in a 6 inch traingular area extending down from point at left center edge, and in a line extending from point of right center edge. Otherwise fine. A 1995 certificate for this work from Bozena Nikiel has been lost, according to the expert.
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