| La danse, Bacchante | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Jean Metzinger |
| Year | c. 1906 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 73 cm × 54 cm (28.75 in × 21.25 in) |
| Location | Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo |
La danse (also known as Bacchante) is an oil painting created circa 1906 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger (1883–1956). Bacchante is a pre-Cubist or Proto-Cubist work executed in a highly personal Divisionist style during the height of the Fauve period. Bacchante was painted in Paris at a time when Metzinger and Robert Delaunay painted portraits of one another, exhibiting together at the Salon d'Automne and the Berthe Weill gallery. Bacchante was exhibited in Paris during the spring of 1907 at the Salon des Indépendants (No. 3460), along with Coucher de soleil and four other works by Metzinger.[1]
The painting was purchased by the art historian and collector Wilhelm Uhde and formed part of his collection until it was sequestered by the French government just before World War I. By 30 May 1921 Bacchante was owned by the French painter André Lhote. The painting appeared at the auction house Hôtel Drouot where it was presumably purchased by Kröller-Müller, and published in Catalogue of the paintings in the collection of Helene Kröller-Müller.[2] The painting forms part of the permanent collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum.[3][4]
- ^ Jean Metzinger, Bacchante, Société des artistes indépendants: catalogue de la 23ème exposition, 1907, no. 3460, p. 225
- ^ Catalogus van de schilderijen verzameling van Mevrouw H. Kröller-Müller, Samensteller H.P. Bremmer, Published 1921(?) in 'S-Gravenhage, no. 844 (in Dutch)
- ^ Joann Moser, 1985, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, Pre-Cubist Works, 1904-1909, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, University of Washington Press, pp. 34, 35
- ^ Jean Metzinger, Bacchante, Kröller-Müller Museum (incorrectly dated circa 1910)
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