Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-36-002 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1936
Title: Nu au Soleil (Nude in the Sun)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 162 x 130 cm
Collection: Musée d’Art moderne de Paris
Inscriptions: Signed (lower left)
Exhibitions: Salon des Indépendants, Un siècle d’art français, 1850-1950, Paris, 17 April – 10 May 1953, no. 829
Notes: Nu au Soleil represents a novel approach to painting for its time—though not entirely in the vein of Surrealism—that carried with it the same artistic intelligence, sensitivity and lucidity displayed throughout the artist’s Neo-Impressionist phase, Proto-Cubist works, Cubist period and successive Post-Cubist constructions.