La danse is an oil painting created circa 1906 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger. Bacchante is a pre-Cubist or Proto-Cubist work executed in a highly personal Divisionist style during t
Jean Metzinger, 1906, La dance, oil on canvas, 73 x 54 cm DSC05359.
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1820–56, La Source (The Spring), oil on canvas, 163 cm × 80 cm (64 in × 31 in), Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Perso-Roman floor mosaic detail from the palace of Shapur I at Bishapur, Iran
Robert Delaunay, 1906, Portrait de Metzinger, oil on canvas, 55 x 43 cm
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
La danse, Bacchante
…Robert Delaunay and Jean Metzinger between 1905 and 1907 painted in a Divisionist style with large squares or rectangular planes of color (see also Two Nudes in an Exotic Landscape). Writing about the 1906 Salon des Indépendants, the art critic Louis Chassevent set the two apart from other Fauves and Neo-Impressionists. His use…
Jean Metzinger, c.1905, Baigneuses, Deux nus dans un jardin exotique, oil on canvas, 116 x 88.8 cm, Colección Carmen Thyssen Bornemisza
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.