Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-05-009 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1905 (circa)
Title: Baigneuses, Deux nus dans un jardin exotique
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 116 x 88.8 cm
Collection: Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Provenance: Sale, Lair-Dubreuil, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 March 1912, lot 55
Zwemmer Gallery, London
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1951)
Acquired in 1982, private collector
Sotheby’s, London, 4 February 2004, Lot 251
Colección Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, Malaga
Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, on long-term loan
Exhibitions: Le néo-impressionnisme, de Seurat à Paul Klee, catalogue Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, pp. 360–361, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 15 March – 10 July 2005
Gauguin y el viaje a lo exótico, catalogue no. 34, p. 146, Museo Thyssen-Bornemiza, Madrid, 9 October 2012 – 13 January 2013
Femina Feminae, Muses and the Collector, From Piazzetta to Delaunay, 10 Museu Carmen Thyssen Andorra, October 2018 – 10 September 2019
Notes: For further information, see Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape, Wikipedia, an article written and published by Alexander Mittelmann (aka Coldcreation) 22 May 1913.
Two Nudes in a Garden (AM-05-011) is an apparent study for this work.