Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné
Number: AM-20-002 Jean Metzinger
Date: 1919-20
Title: Still life with salver (Stilleven met presenteerblad, Still life with Tray)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 38.5 x 60.9 cm
Collection: Kröller-Müller Museum
Inscriptions: Signed (lower right). Galerie de l’Effort Moderne label on the verso with date 1919.
Provenance: Léonce Rosenberg, Galerie de l’Effort Moderne, Paris.
Rosenberg Sale, Mak’s, Amsterdam, 22 February 1921.
Exhibitions: Moderne Kunst – nieuw en oud, Düsseldorf, 1928, no. 344.
Moderne Kunst – alt und neu, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1955.
Schloss Morbroich, Leverkusen, 1955 Amersfoort, 1967-1968.
Literature: Beeldende Kunst, jrg 9, W. Scherjon, Utrecht, July 1922, no. 69, reproduced.
Bremmer 847. B.K.IX-1992, 69. W.C. Feltkamp, Zien en Verstaan, Amsterdam, 1946, p. 273, plate 270.
Joann Moser, Daniel Robbins, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985, catalogue, no. 117, pp. 82, 83, reproduced.
Notes: Also titled Still Life with Tray, Bozena Nikiel dates this painting 1919, in accord with a Galerie de l’Effort Moderne label on the verso that bears the date 1919.
Notwithstanding, the Kröller-Müller Museum continues to date the work 1920.