Albert Gleizes

Albert Gleizes

1881 – 1953

Study of New York or Overland

signed AlbGleizes and dated 16 (lower right)

oil on board laid down on cradled panel

80.1 by 65.8 cm. 31½ by 26¼ in.

Executed in 1916.

Madame Bourdon, Paris (acquired by 1964)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 March 1990, lot 33 (consigned by the above)

Jan Krugier, Geneva (acquired from the above sale)

Estate of Jan Krugier

Sotheby's, London, 2 March 2017, lot 106 (consigned by the above)

Acquired in 2020 by the present owner

New York, Montross Gallery, Jean Crotti, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, 1916, no. 48

Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Le Cubisme, 1953, no. 38

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne and Dortmund, Ostwall Museum, Albert Gleizes, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1964-65, no. 88, illustrated (titled Overland and catalogued as oil on canvas)

Barcelona, Museu Picasso; Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts and Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belém, Albert Gleizes, El cubismo en majestad, 2001-03, no. 83, illustrated in colour (titled Étude sur New York and catalogued as oil on reinforced cardboard)

Anne Varichon, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, no. 751, p. 257, illustrated in colour (catalogued as oil on canvas)