Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Numbner: AM-10-006 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1910-11
Title: Deux Nus (Two Nudes, Two Women)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 92 x 66 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Collection: Gothenburg Museum of Art, purchased 1930. Inventory number GKM 0918. On display in The French Collection I (Room 28), incorrectly dated circa 1913.
Exhibitions: Salon des Indépendants, Paris, 18 March – 1 May 1911
Galeries Dalmau, Exposició d’Art Cubista, Barcelona, 20 April – 10 May 1912, no. 45
Possibly: Salon de la Section d’Or, Galerie La Boétie, Paris, October 1912, no. 113, titled Nus dans un paysage.
Moderna Museets Vänner, Cézanne till Picasso: Fransk konst i svensk ägo, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, September 1954, no. 254 (incorrectly dated 1930)
Literature: La Publicidad, Arte y Artistas, Suplemento Artistico de La Publicidad, Exposicion de Obras de Pintores Cubistas, Barcelona, 26 April 1912, p. 3, reproduced.
Nils Ryndel, Franskt Måleri i Göteborgs Konstmuseum. With a summary in English, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, 1961, pp. 50-52, reproduced.
Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, catalogue no. 27, reproduced p. 49 (titled Two Nudes, dated 1910-11)
Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten, A Cubism Reader, Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914, The University of Chicago Press, 2008, p. 119, reproduced
Notes: For further information about this work, see Wikipedia article titled Deux Nu, written and published by Alexander Mittelmann (aka Coldcreation) 15 September 2013.