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Folio 8 from Poésie de mots inconnus (Poetry of Unknown Words)

Jean MetzingerWW-1949-M147452

Catalogue

Year
1949
Dimensions
plate (partial): 6 5/16 x 4 15/16" (16.1 x 12.5cm); page: 12 13/16 × 9 13/16" (32.5 × 25 cm)

Artist

Jean Metzinger
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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