Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-27-015.5 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1927
Title: Femme à l’hippocampe (L’Invitation au voyage)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 52.5 x 71 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie L’Effort Moderne, Paris
Christie’s, New York, 6 November 1979, lot 46
Sol LeWitt Collection, New York
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York
Private collection (acquired from the above in 2004)
Sotheby’s, New York, 10 May 2016, lot 176
Exhibitions: Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum of Art, Six Decades of Collecting, 1981.
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, The Collections of Long Island: A Century of Art 1880-1980, 1982
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870’s-1980’s, 16 September-9 December 1990.
Literature: Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, n. 233, p. 122.
Constance Schwartz, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870’s-1980’s, 16 September-9 December 1990, reproduced p. 25 (titled Femme nu Allongé, erroneously dated c.1935).
Notes: The larger version of Femme à l’hippocampe (AM-27-015) measures 130 x 195 cm.