Nature morte à la guitare

Inscriptions: Signed (lower right). Verso, prior to relining, signed, titled and dated: Metzinger, Nat. M. Nov. 1919.

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

Auger, Paris

Mrs. Samuel E. Johnson, Chicago

Sotheby’s, New York, 11 May 1988, lot 364

Private collection, Paris

Hammer Galleries, New York

Littérature: Pre-Cubist and Cubist Works, 1900-1930, International Galleries, Chicago, 17 April – 10 May 1964, no. 10, reproduced p. 14, color plate, reproduced (titled Nature morte à la mandoline)

Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, catalogue, no. 114, pp. 80, 81, reproduced.