Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-24-003 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1924 (February)
Title: Le Port
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 64 x 92 cm
Inscriptions: Signed and dated 2-24 (lower right)
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris.
Roger-Walther, Hôtel Drouot, 6 February 1928, lot 114, reproduced
Exhibitions: A francia avant-garde művészek kiállítása / L’exposition des artistes français d’avant-garde, Nemzeti Szalon, Budapest, 3-21 March 1929. Catalogue no. 114, reproduced as no. 112.
Literature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, April 1924, No. 4, reproduced (titled Le Port).
Le Figaro Artistique, 23 February 1928, reproduced.
Jean Metzinger, 1883-1956, Atelier sur l’herbe, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, January 1985, p. 18, reproduced.
Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 193, p. 109, reproduced.
Notes: Le Port was reproduced in Le Figaro Artistique following the auction (circa 7 February 1928) with the sale result of 6,100 francs.
Art historian Barki Gergely has uncovered a documentary film of the 1929 Budapest Nemzeti Szalon exhibition in which this work appears.