Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-20-017 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1920-21
Title: Paysage (Landscape)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 92 x 60.3 cm
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right)
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie l’Effort Moderne, Paris.
Collection of Mrs. Malcolm, Vence, France
R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois
Estate of Howard C. Warren, Chicago, Illinois
Bonhams, New York, 9 November 2010
Exhibitions: A francia avant-garde művészek kiállítása / L’exposition des artistes français d’avant-garde, Nemzeti Szalon, Budapest, 3-21 March 1929. Catalogue no. 113.
Literature: R. Nacenta, School of Paris: the painters and the artistic climate of Paris since 1910, Greenwich, 1960, p. 84, no. 10, p. 85 color plate (erroneously dated 1925)
Notes: Art historian Barki Gergely has uncovered a documentary film of the 1929 Budapest Nemzeti Szalon exhibition in which this painting appears.
Works from this period in the artist’s oeuvre are thoroughly analyzed in Volume II of the Metzinger monograph.