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Albert Gleizes

Football Players, 1912/1913

East Building, Upper Level — Gallery 415-A

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 225.4 x 183 cm (88 3/4 x 72 1/16 in.)

framed: 229.2 x 186.1 cm (90 1/4 x 73 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

1970.11.1

Artists / Makers

Albert Gleizes (painter) French, 1881 - 1953

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Inscription

lower left: Albert Gleizes / 1912-13; center right reverse: 25 nov[e]mbre 191[?]

Provenance

Left 1916 by the artist at the Gallery Dalmau, Barcelona; Dalmau family, Barcelona; purchased 1953/1955 by Stephen Hahn and (Janis Gallery, New York); sold 1955 to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, New York;[1] sold to (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York); purchased May 1970 by NGA.

[1] The details of the provenance are provided in a letter of 10 February 1970 from Daniel Robbins to J. Carter Brown, copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Gallery Dalmau
Hahn, Stephen
Janis Gallery, Sidney
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery
Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich

Exhibition History

1913: 29me Exposition, Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, March-May 1913, no. 1293.

1913: Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin, September-December 1913, no. 147.

1916: Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1916, no. 31.

1955: New Arrivals From France, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1955, no cat.

1964: Albert Gleizes 1881-1953: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1964-1965, no. 40 (New York cat.) and no. 18 (Dortmund cat.).

1969: 20th Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969, unnumbered catalogue.

1970: The Cubist Epoch, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970-1971, no. 98, pl. 63.

1978: Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 14, repro.

1988: Stationen der Moderne: Die bedeutenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 1988-1989, no. 3/18, repro.

2001: Albert Gleizes: El cubismo en majestad, Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 2001, no. 37, repro.

2002: The Avant-Garde in Danish and European Art 1909-19, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2002-2003, no. 24, repro.

2008: Le Futurisme à Paris: une avant-garde explosive, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome; Tate Modern, London, 2008-2009, no. 59, repro. (shown only in Paris).

2012: Der Sturm - Zentrum der Avantgarde, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2016: Apollinaire: le regard du poète, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2016, no. 98, repro.

2018: The Cubist Cosmos: From Picasso to Léger, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Basel, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1972: Apollinaire, Guillaume. Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918. Edited by Leroy C. Breunig. Translated by Susan Suleiman. New York, 1972: 282, 285, 292, 338.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 154, repro.

1975: Robbins, Daniel. "The Formation and Maturity of Albert Gleizes: A Biographical and Critical Study, 1881-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University. Ann Arbor, 1975: 113-114, 163-164.

1982: Buckberrough, Sherry A. Robert Delaunay: The Discovery of Simultaneity. Ann Arbor, 1982: 167-171, no. 60.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 179, repro.

1998: Albert Gleizes: catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1998: 1:148, no. 404, repro.

1998: Pinkus, Karen. “Sport." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 2:856.