Man in a Hammock [SEP] collection
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Description.
"Man in a Hammock" is an oil painting on canvas with dimensions 130 by 155.5 cm (51.2 x 61.2 inches) signed and dated "Alb Gleizes 13", lower left. Painted in 1913, the work "presents an interesting synthesis of back and forth motion," writes art historian Daniel Robbins (Guggenheim, 1964), "and introduces a composition based on the intersection of powerful diagonals". "Man in a Hammock" is
. p. 405); and Albert Gleizes, "L'Épopée", Le Rouge et le Noir, October 1929, p. 81. Stylistically Gleizes' painting exemplifies the principle of mobile perspective laid out in "Du "Cubisme"", written by himself and French painter Jean Metzinger. Evidence suggests that the man reclining in the hammock is indeed Jean Metzinger. Formerly in the collection of Metzinger, the first owner of the painting, "Man in a Hammock" forms part of the permanent collection of the Albright-