Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-11-021.5 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1911-12
Title: L’Éventail vert (Cinq femmes, Group de femmes)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 72.7 x 53.6 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Provenance: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 May 1925, lot 39
Wilhelm Schmid, Lugano (acquired at the above sale).
Paolo Morigi, Lugano (acquired from the above, September 1969).
Private collection, by February 1970.
Christie’s New York, 18 November 2025, lot 241
Exhibitions: Geneva, Musée Rath, Exposition de cubistes français et d’un groupe d’artistes indépendants, June 1913, no. 22 (titled L’éventail vert).
Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870’s-1980’s, 16 September-9 December 1990, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Literature: Constance Schwartz, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870’s-1980’s, 16 September-9 December 1990, reproduced Frontispiece (in black and white, shown here).
A. Mittelmann, Jean Metzinger: Radical Visionary, Volume I, 2025, p. 689 (reproduced).
Notes: The proximity of Cinq femmes with Group de femmes, oil on panel, 11.1 x 8.1 cm (AM-10-001) suggests the latter is a study for this larger work.
Though dated 1912 in the Nassau County Museum of Art catalogue the painting is closely related to La Femme au Cheval (AM-11-022), which was likely executed late-1911 or early-1912.