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Date: 1881-1953

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Description: Painted in 1911.

signed Alb Gleizes and dated 11 (lower right)

oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 65 by 54cm., 25 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.

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Provenance: (Possibly) Jacques Nayral, Paris
Juliette Roche-Gleizes, Paris
Sale: Hôtel des Ventes, Neuilly, 22nd November 1988, lot 223

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Exhibited: Aix-en-Provence, Galerie Lucien Blanc, Albert Gleizeis, 1881-1953, 1960, no. 16b
Avignon, Musée Calvet, Albert Gleizeis, 1881-1953, 1962, no. 8
Grenoble, Musée de peinture et du sculpture, Albert Gleizes et Tempête dans les salons, 1910-1914, 1963, no. 6
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Albert Gleizeis, A Retrospective Exhibition, 1964, no. 26, illustrated in the catalogue
Courbevoie, Musée Roybet-Fould, Albert Gleizeis, 1881-1953, 1971, no. 38

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Published: Anne Varichon, Albert Gleizes, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1998, vol. I, p. 132, no. 362, illustrated

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Notes: This painting is a study for Gleizes' large seated portrait of Jacques Nayral painted the same year, now in the Tate Gallery, London (see: A. Varichon, op. cit., no. 365). Nayral, literary director of the publishers Editions Figuière, was also a close friend and later brother-in-law of Gleizes. Describing his approach to his portrait of Nayral Gleizes recalled: 'J'ai fait toute une série d'études pour préparer ce portrait... Nayral venait régulièrement à l'atelier; je travaillais directement d'après lui mais le plus souvent le travail consistait en conversations amicales, en promenades au jardin au cours desquelles je l'étudiais' (Pierre Alibert, Gleizes, Paris, 1990, p. 66).