Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-27-014 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1927
Title: La Cariatide (La statue du Sémaphore)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 116.2 x 88.9 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris.
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, estate sale, 25 June 1959, lot 13.
Hôtel Drouot, 12-13 June 1969, lot 63 (titled La statue du Sémaphore).
Loudmer, Palais Galliera, 16 March 1970, lot 44.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 October 1980, lot 234A.
Private collection, Florida.
Sotheby’s, New York, 3 October 1990, lot 90.
Sotheby’s, New York, 7 May 2003, lot 348.
Literature: Charles Kunstler, Le Motif Antique dans la Peinture Moderne, Art et Décoration, 1931, vol. 59, p. 140, reproduced (dated 1928).
Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 236, p. 123 (titled Paysage imaginaire and dated c. 1928)