Tricoteuse

Inscriptions: Signed and dated 19 (lower left)

Provenance: Private collection, Mr. Perel

Acquired by MNAM, Centre Pompidou in 1947

Musée des beaux-arts, Rouen (since 1998)

Expositions: Birmingham Art Gallery, 1956

Autour du Cubisme, The Tate Gallery, London, no. 23, 27 July – 9 September 1956

Paintings from the Musée National d’Art Moderne, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 18 October – 15 April 1957 ; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio ; The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh PA ; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Lille Métropole, Musée d’art moderne, Les années cubistes, 15 March – 15 July 1999, p. 107.

Littérature: Alfred Schmeller, Kubismus, Vienna, Verlag Brüder Rosenbaum (Zeit und Farbe), 1956

François Fosca, Bilan du Cubisme, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1956, plate VIII, reproduced

Bernard Dorival, L’Ecole de Paris au Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, Aimery Somogy, coll. Trésors des grands musées, 1961

Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, catalogue no. 75, p. 67, reproduced

Agnès de la Beaumelle et Nadine Pouillon, Paris, ed du Centre Pompidou, 1986 (p. 425, repretoire notice by Claude Laugier)