Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Modern & Contemporary Day Auction
Property of a Private European Collector
Jean Metzinger
Homme assis devant la table
Auction Closed
June 28, 12:29 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private European Collector
Jean Metzinger
1883 - 1956
Homme assis devant la table
signed Metzinger (lower left)
oil and sand on canvas
100.3 by 73 cm. 39⅜ by 28¾ in.
Framed: 130.7 by 85.9 cm. 44¾ by 33¾ in.
Executed in 1918-19.
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist in which the painting is dated as 1918.
Please note that this lot is subject to a guarantee and an irrevocable bid.
Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
The Mayor Gallery, London
Galerie La Gentilhommière, Paris
Charles Preston, Lake Forrest (acquired from the above in 1952)
Joseph Faulkner (Main Street Galleries), Chicago (acquired from the above)
Mr and Mrs Marshall Padorr, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1977)
Sotheby's New York, 10 November 2000, lot 217 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
The Mayor Gallery, London
Galerie La Gentilhommière, Paris
Charles Preston, Lake Forrest (acquired from the above in 1952)
Joseph Faulkner (Main Street Galleries), Chicago (acquired from the above)
Mr and Mrs Marshall Padorr, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1977)
Sotheby's New York, 10 November 2000, lot 217 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Alex Mittelman, Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné, https://jeanmetzinger.art/homme-assis-devant-la-table-2/ (accessed 30 May 2023)
Iowa City, The University of Iowa Museum of Art; Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas; Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, 1985-86, no. 67, p. 64, illustrated (as dating from circa 1918-19)