List of works by Jean Metzinger
Jean Metzinger , photograph circa 1912
This is an incomplete list of works by the French modern artist Jean Metzinger (June 24, 1883 – November 3, 1956). He is admired as a painter, theorist, writer, critic, and poet. Between 1902 and 1907, Metzinger worked in a combination of Neo-Impressionist , Divisionist and Fauvist styles. A Cézannian component in his work during this phase produced some of the earliest proto-Cubist works.
In the words of S.E. Johnson, an in-depth analysis of Metzinger's Pre-Cubist period—his first artistic peak—"can only class that painter, in spite of his youth, as being already one of the leading artistic personalities in that period directly preceding Cubism. [...] In an attempt to understand the importance of Jean Metzinger in Modern Art, we could limit ourselves to three considerations. Firstly, there is the often overlooked importance of Metzinger's Divisionist Period of 1900–1908. Secondly, there is the role of Metzinger in the founding of the Cubist School. Thirdly, there is the consideration of Metzinger's whole Cubist Period from 1909 to 1930. In taking into account these various factors, we can understand why Metzinger must be included among that small group of artists who have taken a part in the shaping of Art History in the first half of the Twentieth Century."[ 1]
From 1908, Metzinger experimented with the faceting of form, a style that would soon become known as Cubism. His involvement in Cubism saw him both as an influential artist and principal theorist of the movement.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Metzinger, a sensitive and intelligent theoretician of Cubism, sought to communicate the principles of this movement through his paintings as well as his writings.[ 5]
Many exhibitions document the painter's national and international success.[ 6] His works can be found in private and public collections and institutions around the world.
The artist died in Paris on November 3, 1956.
Paintings
Painting
Name
French name
Year
Technique
Dimensions
City
Gallery
Ref
Rose Flower in a Vase
Fleur rose dans un vase
1902
oil on canvas
22 x 27 cm
Paris
Private collection
The Clearing
Clairière
c. 1903
oil on canvas
54 x 72.5 cm
Private collection
Landscape
Paysage
1904
oil on canvas
54 x 65.1 cm
Chapel Hill, NC
Ackland Art Museum , University of North Carolina
[1]
The Low Tide
La Marée Basse
c. 1904
oil on canvas
32.3 x 40.2 cm
Private collection
Le chemin a travers les champs
c. 1904
oil on canvas
39 × 46.5 cm
Private collection
Landscape
Paysage
c. 1904
oil on canvas
65 × 92 cm
Private collection
The Seashore
Bord de mer (Le Mur Rose)
1904-05
oil on canvas
64.5 x 91.2 cm
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Museum of Art
[2]
La Tour de Batz au coucher du soleil
1904-05
oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Le Château de Clisson
1904-05
oil on canvas
54.5 x 73.5 cm
Nantes
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
[3]
Landscape with Two Cypresses
Paysage au deux Cypres
1904-05
oil on canvas
60.1 x 81.2 cm
Private collection
Paysage
1904-05
oil on canvas
43 x 64 cm
Private collection
Femme assise au bouquet de feuillage
1905
oil on canvas
65.5 x 54 cm
Private collection
Still Life
Nature morte
1905
oil on canvas
38 x 47 cm
Private collection
Jeune Fille au Fauteuil
Femme nue au chignon assise
1905
oil on canvas
91.8 x 73 cm.
New York
Private collection
Neo-Impressionist Landscape
Paysage Neo-Impressionniste
1905
oil on canvas
41 x 33 cm
Troyes
Musée d'art moderne de Troyes
[4]
Nude in a landscape
Nu dans un paysage
1905-06
oil on canvas
73 x 54 cm
Private collection
Two Nudes in a Garden
Deux nus dans un jardin
1905-06
oil on canvas
91.4 x 63.8 cm
Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape
Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un jardin exotique
1905-06
oil on canvas
116 × 88.8 cm
Madrid
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
[5] [6]
Basse-Normandy
1905-06
oil on canvas
88.4 x 128.4 cm
Private collection
A Peacock
1906
oil on canvas
61 x 47.2 cm
Private collection
Landscape
Coucher de Soleil No. 1
c. 1906
oil on canvas
72.5 x 100 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[7]
The Dance
La danse (Bacchante)
c. 1906
oil on canvas
73 x 54 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[8]
Flamingos
c. 1906
oil on canvas
32.5 x 40.3 cm
Private collection
Parc Montsouris, Morning
Matin au Parc Montsouris
1906
oil on canvas
49.9 x 67.7 cm
Private collection
Nude
Nu
1906
oil on canvas
47 x 63.5 cm
West Palm Beach
Norton Museum of Art
Landscape with a round tree
Paysage a l'arbre rond
c. 1906
Oil on panel
22 x 27.5 cm
Köln Städtische Museen im Überblick
Petit port, pêcheurs et bateaux au quai
1906
oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Private collection
Portrait of Delaunay
Portrait de Delaunay
1906
oil on canvas
54.9 x 43.2 cm
Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
[9]
Saint-Tropez
1906
oil on canvas
54.5 x 73 cm
Private collection
Woman with a Hat
Femme au Chapeau
1906
oil on canvas
44.8 x 36.8 cm
Korban Art Foundation
[10]
Landscape with Fountain
1906-07
oil on canvas
53.3 x 73.6 cm
Private collection
Paysage pointilliste
1906-07
oil on canvas
54.5 x 73 cm
Private collection
Tropical Landscape
Paysage Tropical
1906-07
oil on canvas
89.5 x 62.7 cm
Colored Landscape with Aquatic Birds
Paysage coloré aux oiseaux aquatiques
1906-07
oil on canvas
74 x 99 cm
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[11]
Les Ibis
1907
oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Private collection
Bathers
Baigneuses
c. 1908
oil on cardboard
27 x 21.5 cm
Location unknown
Landscape
Paysage
c. 1908-09
Location unknown
Illustrated in Gelett Burgess, The Wild Men of Paris, The Architectural Record, 1910[ 7]
Nude
Nu à la cheminée (Nu)
1910
oil on canvas
Location unknown
Portrait of Apollinaire
Portrait d'Apollinaire
1910
oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm
Private collection
Two Nudes, Two Women
Deux nus
1910-11
oil on canvas
92 x 66 cm
Gothenburg, Sweden
Gothenburg Museum of Art
[12]
Standing Nude
Nu debout
1910-11
oil on canvas
51.7 x 35 cm
Montréal
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
[ 8]
Madame Metzinger
c. 1911
oil on canvas
26.7 x 21 cm
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
[13]
Portrait of Madame Metzinger
c. 1911
Pencil and ink on paper
22.6 x 15.7 cm
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Dame au décolleté
c. 1911
oil on canvas
72.9 x 60 cm
New York
Private collection
Tea Time
Le Goûter
1911
oil on canvas
75.9 x 70.2 cm
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
[14]
Study for Tea Time
Etude pour Le Goûter
1911
graphite and ink on paper
19 x 15 cm
Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou
[15]
Still Life
Nature morte
1911
oil on canvas
61 x 50 cm
Private collection
Still Life
Nature morte (Compotier et cruche décorée de cerfs)
1911-12
oil on canvas
93.5 by 66.5 cm
Private collection
The Harbor
Le Port
1911-12
oil on canvas
Location unknown
Man with a Pipe (Portrait of an American Smoker)
1911-12
oil on canvas
92.7 x 65.4 cm
Appleton
Lawrence University , Appleton, Wisconsin
Study for the portrait of Apollinaire
Etude pour le portrait de Guillaume Apollinaire
1911
graphite on paper
48 x 31.2 cm
Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou
[16]
Woman with a horse
La Femme au Cheval
1911-12
oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
Copenhagen
Statens Museum for Kunst
[17]
Portrait
1912
oil on canvas
64.8 x 54 cm.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fogg Museum , Harvard University
[18]
Sailboats
Scène du port
c. 1912
oil on canvas
54 x 46 cm.
Ithaca
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art , Cornell University
[19]
Landscape
1912–14?
oil on canvas
73 x 92.1 cm
New York City
Museum of Modern Art
[20]
The Harbor
Le port
1912
oil on canvas
85 x 100.3 cm
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art
[21]
Dancer in a café
Danseuse au café
1912
oil on canvas
146.1 x 114.3 cm
Buffalo, New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
[22]
Woman with a Fan
Femme à l'Éventail
1912
oil on canvas
90.7 x 64.2 cm
New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Femme au chapeau rose et collier de perles
1912
oil on canvas
92 x 65 cm
Private collection
La Plume Jaune
The Yellow Feather
1912
oil on canvas
73 x 54 cm
Private collection
Landscape
Marine, Composition Cubiste
1912
oil on canvas
51.4 x 68.6 cm.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fogg Museum , Harvard University
[23]
At the Cycle-Race Track
Au Vélodrome (Le cycliste)
1912
oil on canvas
130.4 x 97.1 cm
Venice
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
[24]
The Bathers
Les Baigneuses
1912-13
oil on canvas
148.3 x 106.4 cm
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
[25]
The Blue Bird
L'Oiseau bleu
1912-13
oil on canvas
230 x 196 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[26]
Man with Pipe
Le Fumeur
c.1912-13
oil on canvas
129.7 x 96.68 cm
Pittsburgh, PA
Carnegie Museum of Art
[27]
In the Canoe, The Boat (Im Boot)
En Canot (Femme au Canot et à l'Ombrelle)
1913
oil on canvas
146 x 114 cm
Missing, presumed destroyed
Woman with a Fan
Femme à l'Éventail
1913
oil on canvas
92.7 x 65.7 cm
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
[28]
The Smoker
Le fumeur
1914
charcoal on paper
56.1 x 45.2 cm
New York City
Museum of Modern Art
[29]
Soldier at a Game of Chess
Soldat jouant aux échecs (Le Soldat à la partie d'échecs)
1914-15
oil on canvas
81.3 x 61 cm
Chicago
Smart Museum of Art
The Nurse
L'infirmière
1915
View through the Open Window
Paysage à la fenêtre ouverte
1915
oil on canvas
73.3 x 54.5 cm
Nantes
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
[30]
Lady at her Dressing Table
Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette)
1916
oil on canvas
92.4 x 65.1 cm
Private collection
Woman with Lace
Femme à la dentelle
1916
oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[31]
Fruit and a Jug on a Table
1916
oil on canvas
115.9 x 81 cm
Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
[32]
Still Life with Lamp
1916
oil on canvas
81.2 x 60.5 cm
New York City
Museum of Modern Art
[33]
Landscape
Paysage
1916-17
oil on canvas
59.2 x 73 cm
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
[34]
Still Life, Playing Cards, Coffee Cup and Apples
1917
oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm
Private collection
Still Life with Fish
1917?
oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm
Nantes
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
[35]
Still Life
Nature morte avec fruits et pitcher
1917
oil on canvas
80 x 61 cm
Madrid
Fundación Telefónica
[36]
Table by a window
1917
oil on canvas
81 x 65.1 cm
New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art
[37]
Still Life
Nature morte
1918
oil on canvas
73 x 54.3 cm
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
[38]
Still Life with Box
Nature morte avec boîte
c.1918
oil on canvas
60 x 81 cm
New Orleans
New Orleans Museum of Art
Femme face et profil (Femme au verre)
1919
oil on canvas
65 x 50 cm
Paris
Musee National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou
[39]
Seated Woman
1919
Gouache and crayon on paper
38 x 28.5 cm
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
[40]
Still life in an oval
Nature morte oval
1919
oil on canvas
60 x 81 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[41]
Woman with a Coffee Pot
La Femme à la cafetière
1919
oil on canvas
115.3 × 81 cm
London
Tate Gallery
[42]
Landscape
Paysage
1919–1920
oil on canvas
81 x 65 cm
Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou
[43]
City Landscape
1919-20
oil on canvas
53.3 × 80.9 cm
Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Still Life with a Jug and a Pipe
1919
oil on canvas
81 x 60 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[44]
Still Life with Apples
1919
oil on canvas
100 x 74 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[45]
The Knitter
La Tricoteuse
1919
oil on canvas
116.5 x 81 cm
Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou
[46]
Still Life
Livre et pipe rouge
1919
oil on canvas
79.5 x 62.5 cm
Madrid
Fundación Telefónica
[47]
Still life
Nature morte
1919
oil on canvas
73.3 x 100 cm
Bilbao
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Still Life with a Tray
1920
oil on canvas
38.5 x 60.9 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[48]
Landscape
Paysage
c. 1921
oil on canvas
60 x 81.3 cm
Edinburgh
Scottish National Gallery
[49]
The Three Trees
c. 1921
oil on canvas
54.3 cm x 73.3 cm
Ann Arbor
University of Michigan Museum of Art
[ 9]
Still Life
Nature morte
1921
oil on canvas
Minneapolis
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Embarkation of Harlequin
Arlequin
1922-23
oil on canvas
162 x 112 cm
Private collection
Le Bal masque (Carnaval a Venise)
1922
oil on canvas
60 x 81 cm
location unknown
Jeune Femme à la Mandoline
1923(?)
oil on canvas
100 x 73 cm
Private collection
Clown with a banjo
Clown au banjo
1924
oil on canvas
100 x 73.3 cm
Private collection
Portrait of Léonce Rosenberg
Portrait de Léonce Rosenberg
1924
pencil on paper
50 x 36.5 cm
Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne , Centre Georges Pompidou
[50]
Le Bal masqué, La Comédie Italienne
1924
oil on canvas
88.9 x 130.2 cm
Private collection
Salome
1924
oil on canvas
92.2 x 64.8 cm
Private collection
Young woman with a guitar
Femme à la guitare
1924
oil on canvas
92 x 64.9 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[51]
Equestrienne
1924
oil on canvas
81 x 60 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[52]
Circus Equestrienne
1924
oil on canvas
162.2 x 114.3 cm
New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art
[53]
Country Seat with Horsemen
1924
oil on canvas
60.5 x 81 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[54]
Les Arlequins
1925
oil on canvas
97.8 x 146 cm
Private collection
Woman with pheasant
Pêches et faisan
1926
oil on canvas
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
Still life with black vase
Nature morte
1926
oil on canvas
60 x 80.5 cm)
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[55]
La Roulette
1926
oil on canvas
97.8 x 146 cm
Private collection
Still Life With Roulette Wheel
1926
oil on canvas
38.1 x 56 cm
Iowa City
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Jeune fille à la partition
1927
oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm
Private collection
Still Life with a Green Head
Nature morte
1927
oil on canvas
65 x 92 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[56]
Composition allegorique
1928-29
oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[57]
L'Isthme de Corinthe
1928
oil on canvas
73 x 54 cm
Private collection
Female Nude on board Ship
1928
oil on canvas
100 x 73 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[58]
Nautical Still Life
1930
oil on canvas
54.0 x 73.4 cm
Melbourne
National Gallery of Victoria
[59]
Femme stylisée au masque
1930
oil on canvas
91.8 x 65 cm
Private collection
Globe and Banjo
1930
oil on canvas
56 x 92 cm
Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago
[60]
Female Juggler
Jongleuse
1930–1935
oil on canvas
55 x 33 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[61]
The Mirror
Le Miroir
1930–1935
oil on canvas
46 x 38 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[62]
Nude in the Sun
Nu au Soleil
1935
oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[63]
Nu aux hortensias
1935
oil on canvas
130.5 x 89.5 cm
Private collection
Allegorie
1935
oil on canvas
32 x 27 cm
Otterlo
Kröller-Müller Museum
[64]
The Bather, Nude
La Baigneuse, Nu
1936-37
oil on canvas
130 x 89 cm
Private collection
Yachting
1937
oil on canvas
116 x 80 cm
Private collection
La Rêveuse, Jeune femme assise dans une fauteuil
1938
oil on canvas
65 x 54 cm
Private collection
Reclining Figure
Nu Couché
1946
oil on canvas
54 x 73 cm
Private collection
Reclining Nude
Nu allongé
1945-50
oil on canvas
100 x 73 cm
Private collection
The Green Dress
La robe verte
c. 1950
oil on canvas
160 x 96 cm
Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
[65]
Bust of a Woman and Still Life
Buste de femme et nature morte
?
oil on canvas
81 x 60 cm
Troyes
Musée d'art moderne de Troyes
[66]
Published writings
Jean Metzinger was a highly prolific painter. He was also a published writer and theorist, not only on the topic of Cubism (for which he was the first with Note sur la peinture , 1910), but on the arts in general, on other artists, such as Henri Le Fauconnier , Robert Delaunay , Pablo Picasso , Georges Braque , Albert Gleizes and Alexandre Mercereau . His writings are infused with references to science, mathematics, philosophy, politics, and culture. He was also a published poet. He left behind a number of personal letters and journal entries. The following incomplete list contains some of his important published works.
Note sur la peinture , Pan (Paris), October–November 1910
Cubisme et tradition , Paris Journal, 16 August 1911
Alexandre Mercereau , Vers et prose 27 (October–November 1911): 122-129
Du "Cubisme" , written with Albert Gleizes, Edition Figuière, Paris, 1912 (First English edition: Cubism , Unwin, London, 1913)
Art et esthétique , Lettres Parisiennes, suppl. 9 (April 1920): 6-7
Réponse à notre enquête - Où va la peinture moderne? , written with Fernand Léger, Bulletin de l'Effort moderne, February 1924, 5-6
L'Evolution du coloris , Bulletin de l'Effort moderne, Paris, 1925
Enquête du bulletin , Bulletin de l'Effort moderne, October 1925, 14-15
Metzinger, Chabaud, Chagall, Gruber et André Mouchard répondent à l'enquête des Beaux-Arts sur le métric , Beaux-Arts, 2 October 1936, 1
Un souper chez G. Apollinaire , Apollinaire, Paris, 1946
Ecluses , Preface par Henri Charpentier, Paris: G.L. Arlaud, 1947
1912-1946 , Afterword to reprint of Du "Cubisme" by A. Gleizes and J. Metzinger, pp. 75–79, Paris, Compagnie française des Arts Graphiques, 1947
Le Cubisme apporta à Gleizes le moyen d'écrire l'espace , Arts spectacles, no. 418, 3–9, July 1953
Structures de peinture, Structure de l'esprit, Hommage à Albert Gleizes , with essays, statements and fragments of works by Gleizes, Metzinger, André Beaudin, Gino Severini, et al., Lyons, Atelier de la Rose, 1954
Suzanne Phocas , Paris, Galerie de l'Institut, February 1955
Le Cubisme était né , Souvenirs, Chambéry, Editions Présence, 1972
Notes and references
^ S. E. Johnson, 1964, Metzinger, Pre-Cubist and Cubist Works, 1900-1930, International Galleries, Chicago
^ Joann Moser, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, Pre-Cubist works, 1904–1909 , The University of Iowa Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, University of Washington Press, 1985, pp. 34–42
^ Daniel Robbins , Jean Metzinger: At the Center of Cubism, 1985, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, University of Washington Press, pp. 9–23
^ Many of the dates are tentative, based on dates the works were published, exhibition dates and stylistic similarities to dated works.
^ Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Lucy Flint-Gohlke, Thomas M. Messer, Handbook, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection , Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Abrams, 1983
^ Art Directory
^ Gelett Burgess, Wild Men of Paris, The Architectural Record, May 1910, documents p. 3
^ Anne Grace, Jean Metzinger : Nu debout , Revue M, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Fall 2020, p. 17.
^ "The Three Trees" . exchange.umma.umich.edu . Retrieved 2020-12-11 .
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