Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-17-008 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1917
TItle: The Factory (L’usine)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 70.5 x 58 cm
Collection: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Inscriptions: Signed and dated 1917 (lower left)
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, 1964
Mr.and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, Chicago
Sotheby’s, New York, 20 May 1981
Exhibitions: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris, 6 – 31 January 1919
Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 1920-21
Der Sturm, Berlin, Hundertste Ausstellung, 1921
Galerie Berri-Lardy et Cie, Paris, Les Cubistes, 1956, 1959
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, Albert Gleizes, and the Section d’Or, 1964, cat. no. 51
Literature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, June 1927, No. 36, reproduced.
Combat, organe du Mouvement de libération française, Prolongements du cubisme, 23 July 1956, reproduced p. 7.
Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 145, reproduced p. 93 (mentioned pp. 45, 46)