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.
Painting | Name | French name | Year | Technique | Dimensions | City | Gallery | Notes |
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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 | ||
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 Sea Shore | Bord de mer (Le Mur Rose) | 1904-05 | oil on canvas | 64.5 x 91.2 cm | Indianapolis | Indianapolis Museum of Art | ||
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 | |||
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 | ||
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 | ||
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Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape | Baigneuses: Deux nus dans un jardin exotique | 1905-06 | oil on canvas | 116 × 88.8 cm | Madrid | Carmen Cervera Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection[7][8] | |
Basse-Normandy | 1905-06 | oil on canvas | 88.4 x 128.4 cm | Private collection | ||||
A Peakock | 1906 | oil on canvas | 61 x 47.2 cm | Private collection | ||||
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Landscape | Coucher de Soleil No. 1 | c. 1906 | oil on canvas | 72.5 x 100 cm | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | |
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The Dance | La danse (Bacchante) | c. 1906 | oil on canvas | 73 x 54 cm | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum[9] | |
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 | 64.8 x 53.3 cm | Location unknown | |||
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 | |||
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 | ||||
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Colored Landscape with Aquatic Birds | Paysage coloré aux oiseaux aquatique | 1906-07 | oil on canvas | 74 x 99 cm | Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | ||
Les Ibis | 1907 | oil on canvas | 54 x 73 cm | Private collection | ||||
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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[10] | ||||
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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 | |||
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Two Nudes | Deux nus | 1910-11 | oil on canvas | Location unknown | |||
Standing Nude | Nu debout | 1910-11 | oil on canvas | Location unknown | ||||
Madame Metzinger | c. 1911 | oil on canvas | 26.7 x 21 cm | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Museum of Art | |||
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 | |||
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Tea Time | Le Goûter | 1911 | oil on canvas | 75.9 x 70.2 cm | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Museum of Art | The Mona Lisa of Cubism (André Salmon)[11][12][13][14] |
Still Life | Nature morte | 1911 | oil on canvas | 61 x 50 cm | Private collection | |||
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Still Life | Nature morte (Compotier et cruche décorée de cerfs) | 1911-12 | oil on canvas | 93.5 by 66.5 cm | Private collection | ||
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The Harbor | Le Port | 1911-12 | oil on canvis | Location unknown | |||
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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 | ||
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Woman with a horse | La Femme au Cheval | 1911-12 | oil on canvas | 162 x 130 cm | Copenhagen | Statens Museum for Kunst[15] | |
Portrait | 1912 | oil on canvas | 64.8 x 54 cm. | Cambridge | Fogg Museum, Harvard University | |||
Sailboats | Scène du port | c. 1912 | oil on canvas | 54 x 46 cm. | Ithaca | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University | ||
Landscape | Paysage | 1912 | oil on canvas | 59.2 x 73 cm | Chicago | Art Institute of Chicago | ||
The Harbor | Le port | 1912 | oil on canvas | 85 x 100.3 cm | Dallas | Dallas Museum of Art | ||
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Dancer in a café | Danseuse au café | 1912 | oil on canvas | 146.1 x 114.3 cm | Buffalo, New York | Albright-Knox Art Gallery | |
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Woman with a Fan | Femme à l'Éventail | 1912 | oil on canvas | 90.7 x 64.2 cm | New York | Last known location 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 | |||
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Landscape | Marine, Composition Cubiste | 1912 | oil on canvas | 51.4 x 68.6 cm. | Cambridge | Fogg Museum, Harvard University | |
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At the Cycle-Race Track | Au Vélodrome (Le cycliste) | 1912 | oil on canvas | 130.4 x 97.1 cm | Venice | Peggy Guggenheim Collection | |
The Bathers | Les Baigneuses | 1912-13 | oil on canvas | 148.3 x 106.4 cm | Philadelphia | Philadelphia Museum of Art | ||
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The Blue Bird | L'Oiseau bleu | 1913 | oil on canvas | 230 x 196 cm | Paris | Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris[16] | |
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In the Canoe, The Boat (Im Boot) | En Canot (Femme au Canot et à l'Ombrelle) | 1913 | oil on canvas | 150 x 116 cm | Missing or destroyed | ||
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Woman with a Fan | Femme à l'Éventail | 1913 | oil on canvas | 92.7 x 65.7 cm | Chicago | Art Institute of Chicago | |
The Smoker | Le fumeur | 1914 | charcoal on paper | 56.1 x 45.2 cm | New York City | Museum of Modern Art | ||
Soldier at a Game of Chess | Le Soldat a la partie d'échecs | 1915-16 | oil on canvas | 81.3 x 61 cm | Chicago | Smart Museum of Art | ||
Femme à la dentelle | 1916 | oil on canvas | 65 x 54 cm | Paris | Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | |||
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Fruit and a Jug on a Table | 1916 | oil on canvas | 115.9 x 81 cm | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | |||
Woman with Grapes | 1916-17 | oil on canvas | 81.4 x 100.2 cm | Museum of Fine Arts, Houston | ||||
Still Life, Playing Cards, Coffee Cup and Apples | 1917 | oil on canvas | 81 x 65 cm | Private collection | ||||
Table by a window | 1917 | oil on canvas | 81 x 65.1 cm | New York City | Metropolitan Museum of Art | |||
Still Life | 1918 | oil on canvas | 73 x 54.3 cm | Chicago | Art Institute of Chicago | |||
Cubist Composition, Still Life | c.1918 | oil on canvas | 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 | |||
Still life in an oval | Nature morte oval | 1919 | oil on canvas | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | |||
Woman with a Coffee Pot | La Femme à la cafetière | 1919 | oil on canvas | 115.3 × 81 cm | London | Tate Gallery | ||
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 | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | ||||
La Tricoteuse | 1919 | oil on canvas | 116.5 x 81 cm | Paris | Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou | |||
Still Life | 1919 | oil on canvas | 79.5 x 62.5 cm | Madrid | Fundación Telefónica | |||
Still life | Nature morte | 1919 | oil on canvas | 73.3 x 100 cm | Bilbao | Bilbao Fine Arts Museum | ||
Landscape | Paysage | c. 1921 | oil on canvas | 60 x 81.3 cm | Scottish National Gallery | |||
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 au banjo | 1924 | oil on canvas | 100 x 73.3 cm | Private collection | ||||
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 | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | |||
Equestrienne | 1924 | oil on canvas | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | ||||
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 | 1926 | oil on canvas | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | ||||
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 | 1927 | oil on canvas | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | ||||
Composition allegorique | 1928-29 | oil on canvas | 54 x 73 cm | Paris | Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | |||
L'Isthme de Corinthe | 1928 | oil on canvas | 73 x 54 cm | Private collection | ||||
Nautical still life | 1930 | oil on canvas | 54.0 x 73.4 cm | Melbourne | National Gallery of Victoria | |||
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 | |||
Nu au Soleil | 1935 | oil on canvas | 162 x 130 cm | Paris | Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | |||
Nu aux hortensias | 1935 | oil on canvas | 120.5 x 89.5 cm | Private collection | ||||
Allegorie | 1935 | oil on canvas | Otterlo | Kröller-Müller Museum | ||||
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 la Ville de Paris |
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 as 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 list is incomplete, but contains some of his important published works.