La fumeuse

Inscriptions: Signed towards (lower left)

Provenance: John Quinn, New York

The New Gallery, New York

Private collection, Switzerland

Exhibitions: Exhibition and sale at the American Art Galleries, Bernet and Parke, American Art Association, New York, 1927, no. 362, p. 146 (reproduced).

Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes, Obras Cubistas y “Collages”, 1966, no. 10 (reproduced in the catalogue)

Les Cubistes, Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, 4 May – 1 September 1973; and Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, 26 September – 10 November 1973, no. 157, p. 83

Il Cubismo, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, 6 December 1973 – 13 January 1974, n. 79, reproduced.

Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Eine Schweizer Sammlung, Moderner Kunst 1909-1939, 2 March – 13 April 1980. Travelled to Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 25 April – 8 June 1980; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 29 June – 17 August 1980, no 67

Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 31 August – 13 October 1985; The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, 10 November – 22 December 1985; The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, 23 January – 9 March 1986; Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, 29 March – 25 May 1986, catalogue no. 40, p. 54, reproduced in color p. 27

Literature: 

John Quinn, 1870-1925, Collection of paintings, watercolors, drawings & sculpture, Pigeon Hill Press, 1926, no. 75

Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, no. 40, p. 54, reproduced in color p. 27 (dated c. 1913-14)

A poster of La fumeuse was printed for the occasion of the Jean Metzinger in Retrospect exhibitions, 1985

The Pitt News, University of  Pittsburgh, Vol. 80, Issue 77, Friday, 4 April 1986, p. 7

Notes: Photographic record: Walter Rosenblum for New Gallery, Photograph Archives, Smithsonian American Art Museum