Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-24-017 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1924
Title: Clown au banjo (Pierrot jouant du banjo)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 73.3 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris.
Rheims et Laurin, Paris, 23 June 1961, lot 150.
Oscar Ghez, Geneva.
Petit Palais, Geneva.
Ader-Picard-Tajan, Paris, 8 April 1989, lot 100.
Alain Delon Collection
Christie’s Paris, 16 December 2009, lot 483
Exhibitions: Turin, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, 80 pittori da Renoir a Kisling, février-avril 1964, no. 195, reproduced.
Geneva, Petit Palais, XXVème anniversaire des Nations-Unies, l’art au service de la paix, l’amour, le travail et les loisirs, June – December 1970, no. 70, reproduced.
Nice, Palais de la Méditerranée, Kisling et son temps, March – April 1973, no. 57, reproduced color plate.
Berlin, Grosse Orangerie im Schlosse Charlottenburg, Tendenzen der Zwanziger Jahre. Fünfzehnte Europaïsche Kunstaustellung, Neue Wirklichkeit-Surrealismus und Neue Sachlichkeit, August – October 1977, p. 184, no. 4/118, p. 185. reproduced.
Londres, Hayward Gallery, Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties, November 1978 – January 1979, p. 147, no. 187.
Literature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, January 1925, No. 11, reproduced (titled Le Clown au banjo).
Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 198, p. 111, reproduced.