Modern Day Auction

Modern Day Auction

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 108. Femme à l'hippocampe.

Property of a Prominent Private Collector

Jean Metzinger

Femme à l'hippocampe

Session begins in

22:45:53

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)