Jean Metzinger
Village cubiste
, 1917
Etching with margins
Plate size 9.5 x 7.25 inches
Rare signed proof
Signed in pencil
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Provenance
Private collection, Paris
Note: Metzinger was the co-author with Albert Gleizes of Du “Cubisme” in 1912 - the first major treatise on Cubism. Metzinger began the book by stating - ‘To understand Paul Cézanne is to foresee Cubism.’