Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works
Metzinger, before 1913
Jean Metzinger, 1912, Danseuse au café (Dancer in a café), oil on canvas, 146.1 x 114.3 cm, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Published in Au Salon d'Automne "Les Indépendants" 1912, Exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne
Jean Metzinger, c.1905, Baigneuses, Deux nus dans un jardin exotique (Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape), oil on canvas, 116 x 88.8 cm, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Jean Metzinger, ca. 1906, Coucher de Soleil No. 1 (Landscape), oil on canvas, 72.5 x 100 cm, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape is an oil painting created circa 1905 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger. Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape is a Proto-Cubist work executed in a highly pe
Jean Metzinger
…characterize Cubism can already be observed in his works as early as 1905, following the lead of Seurat and Cézanne. (See Jean Metzinger, 1905–1906, Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape, oil on canvas, 116 x 88.8 cm). For Metzinger, along with to some extent both Gleizes and Malevich, the classical vision had been an incomplete…
Jean Metzinger, c.1906, Femme au Chapeau (Woman with a Hat), oil on canvas, 44.8 x 36.8 cm, Korban Art Foundation
Paul Gauguin, 1892, Tahitiennes sur la plage, oil on canvas, 109.9 cm × 89.5 cm (43.3 in × 35.2 in), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Henri Rousseau, c. 1905–07, Eve and the Serpent, oil on canvas, 61 x 46 cm, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany. Delaunay met Rousseau in 1906, and it is likely that Metzinger met Rousseau around the same time.