Catalogue Raisonné Jean Metzinger
Número: AM-05-008 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1905
Titre: Le Paon (A Peacock)
Technique: Huile sur toile
Dimensions: 61.2 x 46.1 cm
Inscriptions: Signed lower right
Provenance: Sale, Lair-Dubreuil, Drouot, Paris, 13 March 1912, lot 54
Sotheby’s, New York, 12 May 1994, lot 175
Christie’s, New York, 14 May 2019, lot 313
Expositions: Galerie Berthe Weill, Paris, 23 November – 21 December 1905, no. 50
Salon des Indépendants, Paris, March – April 1906, no. 3481
La Toison d’Or, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, January – December 1908.
Littérature: La Toison d’Or, Moscow, January – December 1908, Plates IVa and IVó, p. 64, reproduced (hanging on the wall, upper right and center left, respectively).
Notes: Hitherto erroneously listed as painted in 1906, Le Paon is evidently a work of 1905 (perhaps late-1905), since it was exhibited at Berthe Weill’s gallery in the final two months of 1905.