Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-56-001 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1956
Title: Le chat sur la table
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 162 x 130 cm
Inscriptions: Signed and formerly dated 56 (lower center-right)
Provenance: Suzanne Metzinger.
Sotheby & Co., London, 30 November 1972, lot 112 (titled Chat gris au Panier)
Private collection, France.
Gallerie Melki, Paris.
Catherine Charbonneaux, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, 8 April 1990 (titled Composition au chat gris).
Opera Gallery, Paris
Kohn, Ritz-Carlton, Cannes, 9 August 2005, lot 620
Exhibitions: Salon des Indépendants, 1957, n. 2579 (titled Nature morte).
Notes: The date 56, formerly underneath the signature JMetzinger was removed (or painted over) after Metzinger sold the painting. Three photographs of this work from Metzinger’s archive, two in black & white (1957) and one in color, show the date 56.