Composition

Inscriptions: Signed (lower left)

Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie L’Effort Moderne, Paris

Museum of Modern Art, New York (according to Joann Moser, 1985)

Mr. and Mrs. A.M. Adler, New York.

Private collection (gift from the above in 1964).

Christie’s, New York, 2 November 2005, lot 445.

Exhibitions: Selections from the Collection of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Vol. II, Hirschl & Adler, New York, 1960, no. 76, reproduced.

Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 31 August – 13 October 1985; The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 10 November – 22 December 1985; The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, 23 January – 9 March 1986; Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 29 March – 25 May 1986, no. 155, p. 97, reproduced.

Literature: Guillaume Apollinaire, Les peintres cubistes, meditations esthétiques, Geneva, P. Cailler, 1950, no. 10, reproduced.

Selections from the Collection of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, Zürich, 1960, vol. II, p. 49, pl. 76, reproduced.

Selections from the Collection of Hirschl and Adler Galleries, New York, 1964-1965, vol. VI, pl. 66, reproduced.