Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-26-015.1 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1926-27
Title: Astrologie (L’espace et le temps)
Medium: Oil on canvas laid down on board
Dimensions: 98 x 73 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower left).
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris.
Claude Guérin, Librairie Giraud-Badin, Paris (by 24 July 1981)
Christie’s, New York, 20 November 1986, lot 395 (as painted in 1926, with dimensions 100.3 x 73 cm)
Ader, Picard, Tajan, Drouot Montaigne, 8 April 1989, lot 97 bis. (as 98 x 73 cm)
Literature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, June 1927, No. 36, reproduced (titled Astrologie, dated 1927).
Beeldende Kunst, jrg 23, no. 79, 1936-1937, no 10, 01-02-1937, reproduced.
Notes: Pending further examination; there exists another version of Astrologie (L’espace et le temps), oil on canvas, 65 x 49.5 cm, titled Astrologie and dated 1927 on the stretcher (verso).