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Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection

Jean Metzinger

La Femme et l'oiseau

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished East Coast Collection

Jean Metzinger 

1883 - 1956


La Femme et l'oiseau 

signed Metzinger (lower left) 

oil on canvas 

31 ¾ by 23 ½ in. 

80 by 60 cm. 

Executed in 1925. 

Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris (acquired in 1925)

André Emmerich Gallery, Zurich 

Private Collection, United States 

Acquired by descent from the above by 1991 by the present owner

Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne, April 1925, no. 14, illustrated 

"Truth in Painting," Artwork, vol. II, no. 5, October – December 1925, p. 18, illustrated 

Alex Mittelman, Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonnéhttps://jeanmetzinger.art/la-femme-et-loiseau-girl-with-dove/ (accessed 8 April 2024)