39 Jean METZINGER (1883-1956) Cat with a bowl of milk, circa 1950 Oil on canvas Signed lower right 27 x 35 cm Certificate from Marc Ottavi dated October 25, 2023. The work will be included in the Catalogue raisonné of Jean Metzinger's work, currently being prepared by the Comité Jean Metzinger (M. Ottavi, R. Maket, M. Mielniczuk). Provenance: Gift of the artist to Dr. Daminot Two-tone, two-sided cat portraits appeared in Jean Metzinger's paintings around 1945. À period, the painter reinvented figurative cubism, playing with optical effects that animate and de- his figures. By depicting the subject in motion in space and time, the artist takes up an essential argument an essential argument developed in Du Cubisme, a book he wrote with Albert Gleizes in 1912. Jean M

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