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Nu à la cheminée
Nu à la cheminée, also referred to as Nu dans un intérieur, Femme nu, and Nu or Nude, is a painting by Jean Metzinger. The work was exhibited in Paris at the Salon d'Automne of 1910, and the Salon de la Section d'Or, Galerie La Boétie in Paris, October 1912. It was published in "Du "Cubisme"", written by Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes in 1912, and subsequently published in "The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes
"total image." Though he does not discuss his own work in "Note sur la peinture", clearly at the time of writing he had already discarded classical perspective ("Nu", "Landscape" and "Nu à la cheminée (Nude)", c. 1908, 1909 and 1910 respectively) turning his attention fully towards the geometric abstraction of form.
Theoretical underpinnings, 1910–1912.
The idea exemplified in "La Femme au Cheval" of moving around an object in order to see it from different