Landscape by Jean Metzinger
Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape

Jean Metzinger · 1912

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Nell Walden (1887–1975), Berlin by at least Sept. 23, 1927 to at least 1954 [Berlin 1927 and Stockholm 1954]. Probably Otto Gerson Gallery, New York, by 1962 [this and the following according to correspondence in curatorial file]; Marlborough-Gerson, Inc., New York and London [verso label]; sold to Sigmund Kunstadter (died 1977), Highland Park, IL; by descent to Mrs. Sigmund Kunstadter, Highland Park, IL, 1977; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung, 1926, cat. 1758.
  • Berlin, Galerie Alfred Flechtheim, Nell Walden–Heimann und Ihre Sammlungen, September 6–September 23, 1927, p. 9, cat. 99.
  • Bern, Kunstmuseum, Gemälde und Zeichnungen alter Meister Kunsthandwerk aus Privatbesitz: Der Sturm, Sammlung Nell Walden aus den Jahren 1912–1920, October 1944–March 1945, p. 56, cat. 351.
  • Stockholm, Riksförbundet för Bildande Konst, Der Sturm: Samling Nell Walden, 1954, p. 18, cat. 60.
  • Iowa City, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, August 31–October 13, 1985 no. 140; traveled to Austin, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, November 2–December 28, 1985; and Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, January 18–September 3, 1986.

Literature

Published references

  • The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1977–1978), p. 32 (ill.).
  • A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 55, no. 2G3.
  • Joann Moser, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, exh. cat. (Iowa City, Iowa: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1985), pp. 45 and 90–91, cat. 140 (ill.).

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