Fruit and a Jug on a Table [SEP] material used
Arts, Boston.
Description.
"Fruit and a Jug on a Table" is an oil and sand on canvas, signed "JMetzinger", lower left, and inscribed on the reverse; "Peint par moi / en 1916 / Metzinger". The work represents a divers grouping of objects—a bowl of fruit, a carafe (or jug), a glass, and a bottle labelled "BANYU". Banyuls-sur-Mer is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France,
Fruit and a Jug on a Table
Fruit and a Jug on a Table (also titled Melon et compotier) is a Cubist painting dated 1916 by the French artist and theorist Jean Metzinger. In 1919 the painting was exhibited in Paris at Léonce Rosenberg's, Galerie de l'Effort Moderne. The painting was reproduced in the June 1924 (n. 6) issue of "Bulletin de l'Effort Moderne". The work is on view at Charlotte F. and Irving W. Rabb Gallery (Europe, 1900–1960, Modernism), Museum of Fine