A landscape painting in seven sharply defined sections.
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The painting of a landscape in six seven vertical rectangles. Left to right, a seascape of wavy blue and gray lines and the prow of a boat. Next, a wall of tan brick and a black half-moon with feathered edges. Next, is a landscape of a patchwork colored hill with a tree at the base; followed by a black and gray triangular outline of two roofs. In the next panel is a house with a black hill behind, a large tree with green leaves leans over it, a seascape of wavy blue and gray lines follows showing a, black boat near the top, another boat at the bottom.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.735
People
Jean Metzinger, French (Nantes, France 1883 - 1956 Paris, France)
Title
Landscape (Composition Cubiste)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1912
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228378

Location

Location
Level 1, Room 1300, Modern and Contemporary Art, Early Modernism
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51.44 x 68.58 cm (20 1/4 x 27 in.)
framed: 75 x 92.7 x 8.5 cm (29 1/2 x 36 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: Metzinger

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Herwarth Walden (1917-19; Nell Walden, Switzerland (1919). Paul Citroen, Wasenaar (1919- ) [Galerie Fricker, Paris], sold; to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hazen
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.735
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe, Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art, Routledge (New York and London, 2022), p. 172, fig. 5.1, ill. (b/w)

Exhibition History

  • Painters of the Section d'Or, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 09/26/1967 - 10/22/1967
  • Collection of Joseph H. Hazen, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, 08/01/1969 - 09/30/1969
  • Cubism: Explorations and Adaptations, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 09/18/1982 - 10/26/1982
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/14/2015 - 01/01/2050

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