Femme au fruits (Jeune fille avec fruits)

Technique: Huile sur toile

Dimensions: 100 x 73 cm

Inscriptions: Signed and dated – 25 (lower right)

Collection: Tel Aviv Museum of Art (1998)

Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris.

Galerie des Etats-Unis, Cannes, France.

E. And A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York.

Stephen Silagy Galleries, Beverly Hills.

Estate of Edmund W. Mudge Jr., Dallas.

Christie’s, New York, 16 May 1985, lot 401.

Sara and Moshe Mayer Collection, Geneva, Tel Aviv.

Littérature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, November 1925, No. 19, reproduced (titled Femme au fruits).

Jean Metzinger, 1883-1956, Atelier sur l’herbe, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, January 1985, p. 19, reproduced.

Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 208, p. 114, reproduced.

Notes: Christie’s (16 May 1985) title this work Portrait de Suzanne Phocaf [sic], and writes; painted “in the early part of 1926.” However, the model represents someone other than Suzanne Phocas, and the work is dated 1925.