39 Jean METZINGER (1883-1956)
Cat with a bowl... Lot 39
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39 Jean METZINGER (1883-1956)
Cat with a bowl of milk, circa 1950
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
27 x 35 cm
Certificate from Marc Ottavi dated October 25, 2023.
The work will be included in the Catalogue raisonné of Jean Metzinger's work, currently being prepared by the Comité Jean Metzinger (M. Ottavi, R. Maket, M. Mielniczuk).
Provenance:
Gift of the artist to Dr. Daminot
Two-tone, two-sided cat portraits appeared in Jean Metzinger's paintings around 1945. À
period, the painter reinvented figurative cubism, playing with optical effects that animate and de-
his figures. By depicting the subject in motion in space and time, the artist takes up an essential argument
an essential argument developed in Du Cubisme, a book he wrote with Albert Gleizes in 1912.
Jean M
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