Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-12-012.5 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1912
Title: Portrait du peintre A. Gleizes
Medium: Graphite of paper
Dimensions: 21.3 x 16.5 cm
Inscriptions: Portrait du peintre A. Gleizes (upper center-left), signed and dated (lower right)
Provenance: Ragnar Josephson (1891‑1966), Lund, Sweden, according to a note received as a gift from Jean Metzinger’s widow
Uppsala Auktion, Stockholm, Sweden, 10-12 May 2023, lot 400
Notes: This portrait is very closely related to Portrait of Albert Gleizes, oil on canvas, Rhode Island School of Design, RISD Museum (AM-11‑017). There exist three drawings of this portrait. See Étude pour le portrait d’Albert Gleizes in the collection of Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (AM-11‑015) and Étude pour le portrait d’Albert Gleizes in the collection of Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (AM-11‑016). It is believed this drawing was execute after the RISD oil on canvas.