Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-16-005 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1916
Title: Hommage au poète Roger Allard
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 40.8 x 27.2 cm
Inscriptions: Signed, dated, and dedicated (upper left): “au poète Roger Allard son ami Metzinger (1916)”
Provenance: Roger Allard, Paris (gift of the artist, 1916).
Private collection, France.
Christie’s, Paris, 20 May 2011, lot 68
Christie’s, Paris, 20 May 2011, lot 68
Literature: Paris, Musée de la Poste & Lodève, Musée de Lodève, Gleizes-Metzinger. Du Cubisme et après, 2012-2013, p. 106, reproduced
Notes: For a wide variety of reasons, this particular painting is extremely important in the oeuvre of Jean Metzinger. See Metzinger monograph, Volume II.