Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-19-009 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1919 (circa)
Title: Livre et pipe rouge
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 79.5 x 62.5 cm
Collection: Fundación Telefónica
Inscriptions: Signed (lower center)
Provenance: Fundación Telefónica, on long-term loan to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
Exhibitions: The Colección Cubista de Telefónica has been exhibited in many venues in itinerancy throughout: such as in Bilbao (2013), Seville (2014), Granada (2015), Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo de Badajoz (2016) and in contemporary art museums, such as the MACA in Alicante or the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art in Segovia.
Notes: The Fundación Telefónica dates this work circa 1921. Stylistically, the composition, colors, and texturing, or patterning, is closer to late 1919 or early 1920 paintings by Metzinger.