Le chat sur la table

Inscriptions: Signed and formerly dated 56 (lower center-right)

Provenance: Suzanne Metzinger.

Sotheby & Co., London, 30 November 1972, lot 112 (titled Chat gris au Panier)

Private collection, France.

Gallerie Melki, Paris.

Catherine Charbonneaux, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 8 April 1990 (titled Composition au chat gris).

Opera Gallery, Paris

Kohn, Ritz-Carlton, Cannes, 9 August 2005, lot 620

Expositions: Salon des Indépendants, 1957, n. 2579 (titled Nature morte).

Notes: The date 56, formerly underneath the signature JMetzinger was removed (or painted over) after Metzinger sold the painting. Three photographs of this work from Metzinger’s archive, two in black & white (1957) and one in color, show the date 56.