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Nu à La Cheminée
''Nu à la cheminée'', also referred to as ''Nu dans un intérieur'', ''Femme nu'', and ''Nu'' or ''Nude'', is a painting by Jean Metzinger. The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne of 1910, and the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie in Paris, October 1912. It was published in '' Du "Cubisme"'', written by Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes in 1912, and subsequently published in '' The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes)'' by Guillaume Apollinaire, 1913. By 1912 ''Nu à la cheminée'' was in the collection of M.G. Comerre (the mother of Albert Gleizes, and sister of Léon Comerre, the academic/Symbolist painter who won the Gand Prix de Rome in 1875). The work has not been seen in public since, its current location is unknown. Overview Jean Metzinger, judging from an interview with Gelett Burgess in ''Architectural Record'', appears to have abandoned his Divisionist style in favor of the ''faceting of form'' associated with ana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger (; 24 June 1883 – 3 November 1956) was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907, Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and Fauvist styles with a strong Paul Cézanne, Cézannian component, leading to some of the first Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist works. From 1908, Metzinger experimented with the faceting of form, a style that would soon become known as Cubism. His early involvement in Cubism saw him both as an influential artist and an important theorist of the movement. The idea of moving around an object in order to see it from different view-points is treated, for the first time, in Metzinger's ''Note sur la Peinture'', published in 1910.Jean Metzinger, October–November 1910, "Note sur la peinture" Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |