Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-12-002 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1912
Title: Coureur cycliste (Le Bicycliste)
Medium: Oil and sand on board
Dimensions: 27.2 x 22.2 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (upper left). Attestation by Metzinger on the verso: ‘Je certifie que ce tableau a été exécuté en 1912, Metzinger‘
Provenance: Berthe Weill (label on the verso)
André Level, Paris (by 1914)
Bellier, Hôtel Drouot, 3 March 1927, lot 107
Alph. Bellier, Hôtel Drouot, 15 January 1943, lot 121
Private collection
Exhibitions: Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Cycling, Cubo-Futurism and the Fourth Dimension: Jean Metzinger’s At the Cycle-Race Track, 9 June – 16 September 2012
Literature: Erasmus Weddigen, Cycling, Cubo-Futurism and the Fourth Dimension, Jean Metzinger’s At the Cycle-Race Track, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, June 9 – September 16, 2012, p. 85, no. 8, fig. 61, reproduced