Le Port

Inscriptions: Signed and dated 2-24 (lower right)

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

Roger-Walther, Hôtel Drouot, 6 February 1928, lot 114, reproduced

Expositions: A francia avant-garde művészek kiállítása / L’exposition des artistes français d’avant-garde, Nemzeti Szalon, Budapest, 3-21 March 1929. Catalogue no. 114, reproduced as no. 112.

Littérature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, April 1924, No. 4, reproduced (titled Le Port).

Le Figaro Artistique, 23 February 1928, reproduced.

Jean Metzinger, 1883-1956, Atelier sur l’herbe, École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, January 1985, p. 18, reproduced.

Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 193, p. 109, reproduced.

Notes: Le Port was reproduced in Le Figaro Artistique following the auction (circa 7 February 1928) with the sale result of 6,100 francs.

Art historian Barki Gergely has uncovered a documentary film of the 1929 Budapest Nemzeti Szalon exhibition in which this work appears.