Nature morte au compotier

Inscriptions: Signed and dated 2-18 (lower right)

Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie L’Effort Moderne, Paris

Galerie Melki, Paris

Private Collection, France (acquired from the above in the 1970s)

Private collection (acquired from the above)

Sotheby’s, London, 20 June 2007, lot 356

Literature: Bulletin de L’Effort Moderne, February 1927, No. 32, reproduced (titled Nature morte).

Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, 1985, no. 93, p. 74, reproduced.

Christopher Green, Cubism and its Enemies, Modern Movements and Reaction in French Art, 1916–1928, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1987, no. 179, pp. 34, 144, 162 reproduced.