About This Artwork

Jean Metzinger
French, 1883–1956

Still Life, 1918

Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 21 3/8 in. (73 x 54.3 cm)
Signed, l.r.: "J. Metzinger"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, 1954.1312

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Milan, Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, November 1950. West Palm Beach, Norton Gallery, October 7–December 3, 1972.

Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Cubism, October 2–November 14, 1976, no. 63; traveled to Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, November 23– December 19, 1976.

Publication History

The Art Institute of Chicago, Quarterly XLIX, no. 2 (April 1955), p. 23 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1961), p. 311.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago, 1980), p. 56, no. 2G5.

Ownership History

Leonce Rosenberg, Paris. Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, by 1952. Sold to Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Winston, Birmingham, Michigan, 19 November 1952 [according to a letter from Mrs. Barnett Malbin in curatorial file]. Given by them to the Art Institute, 1954.