Man on a Balcony [SEP] collection
occasion of the 1910 Salon des Indépendants, wrote disparagingly of 'pallid' cubes with reference to the paintings of Metzinger, Gleizes, Le Fauconnier, Léger and Delaunay.
On 3 December 1912 the polemic reached the Chambre des députés and was debated at the Assemblée Nationale in Paris.
- Albert Gleizes, exhibited "l'Homme au Balcon" (Man on a Balcony), (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud) 1912 (Philadelphia Museum of Art), also exhibited at the Armory show, New York, Chicago, Boston
Metzinger a major treatise titled "Du "Cubisme"" (the first and only manifesto on Cubism). "Man on a Balcony" was purchased at the 1913 Armory show by the lawyer, author, art critic, private art collector, and American proponent of Cubism Arthur Jerome Eddy for $540. Gleizes' "Man on a Balcony" was the frontispiece of Arthur Jerome Eddy's book "Cubists and Post-Impressionism", March 1914. The painting later formed part of the Louise and Walter Conrad Arensberg Collection