Modern Day Auction
Modern Day Auction
Property of a Prominent Private Collector
Femme à l'hippocampe
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May 14, 02:00 PM GMT
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Bid
100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Prominent Private Collector
Jean Metzinger
1883 - 1956
Femme à l'hippocampe
signed JMetzinger (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ⅜ by 28 ½ in.
53.3 by 71.1 cm.
Executed in 1927.
Galerie de l'Effort Moderne (Léonce Rosenberg), Paris
Galerie Motte, Geneva, 2 March 1973, lot 6
Christie’s, New York, 6 November 1979, lot 46
Sol LeWitt, New York (acquired by 1982 and until at least 1985)
Martha Parrish & James Reinish, Inc., New York
Private Collection, Kansas City (acquired from the above in 2004)
Sotheby’s, New York, 10 May 2016, lot 176 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Alex Mittelman, Jean Metzinger Catalogue Raisonné, no. AM-27-015.5, https://jeanmetzinger.art/femme-a-lhippocampe/ (accessed 1 May 2025)
Huntington, New York, Heckscher Museum of Art, Six Decades of Collecting, 1981, illustrated; p. 20 (titled Femme nu allongée)
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Collections of Long Island: A Century of Art 1880-1980, 1982, no. 40, illustrated (titled Femme nu allongée and dated circa 1935)
Roslyn, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects, The Figure & Landscape, 1870s-1970s, 1990, illustrated (dated circa 1935)
Iowa City, Stanley Museum of Art, University of Iowa Museum, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, 1985, no. 233, illustrated (titled Femme nue allongée and dated circa 1927-28)
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