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The Smoker

Jean MetzingerWW-1914-M029961

1914·Charcoal on paper·22 1/8 x 17 3/4" (56.1 x 45.2 cm)

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Year: 1914
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 22 1/8 x 17 3/4" (56.1 x 45.2 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Jean Metzinger

Artist

Jean Metzinger

Drawing

The French painter and theorist Jean Metzinger was “a bit of a magpie, and amalgamator of the innovations of Cubism and Futurism,” according to Sotheby's specialist Thomas Boyd-Bowman. His oil-and-sand painting Le Cycliste (1912), on the auction block in February 2020, exemplified his adept synthesis of these avant-garde principles to vividly evoke the speed and dynamism of the modern age.

Nantes, France

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