![]() Her left breast is seen both from the front and from the side simultaneously. The woman appears simultaneously clothed and unclothed in an interplay of transparencies, visual, tactile, and motor spaces, evoking a series of mind-associations between past present and future not atypical of Metzinger's earlier works. Jean Metzinger, 1916, Femme au miroir ( Lady at her Dressing Table), detail An angled window appears to the left with an awning above, part of a tree and blue sky beyond. The vertical composition is painted in a geometrically Cubist style, representing a woman holding a mirror in her left hand, standing in front of a chair and dressing table upon which rests a perfume atomizer. Description įemme au miroir, signed "JMetzinger" and dated Avril 1916 on the reverse, is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 92.4 x 65.1 cm (51 1/16 x 38 1/16 in.). The work was subsequently featured at The University of Iowa Museum of Art in the Jean Metzinger in Retrospect exhibition, 1985, and reproduced as a full page color plate in the catalogue. The painting was purchased in New York City (at the auction or afterwards) by the American art collector John Quinn, and formed part of his collection until 1927. For the same occasion, Femme au miroir was reproduced in The Sun, New York, Sunday 28 April 1918. ![]() ![]() In 1918, the painting was shipped to New York City for the occasion of the Léonce Rosenberg collection auction. Painted during the spring of 1916, Femme au miroir formed part of the collection of Léonce Rosenberg, and was probably exhibited at Galerie de L'Effort Moderne in Paris. The work of Juan Gris from the summer of 1916 to late 1918 bears much in common with that of Metzinger's late 1915 – early 1916 paintings. The role of color remains primordial, but is now restrained within sharp delineated boundaries in comparison with several earlier works. The manifest primacy of the underlying geometric configuration, rooted in the abstract, controls nearly every element of the composition. This distilled synthetic form of Cubism exemplifies Metzinger's continued interest, in 1916, towards less surface activity, with a strong emphasis on larger, flatter, overlapping abstract planes. ![]() Woman with a Mirror), Femme à sa toilette or Lady at her Dressing Table, is a painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. Painting by Jean Metzinger Femme au miroirįemme au miroir (en. ![]()
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