Football Players

1912/1913

Albert Gleizes

Associated Names
Albert Gleizes

Painter, French, 1881 - 1953

This painting shows geometric shapes and intersecting lines that suggest a group of people in a fractured view. Angular planes suggest faces and limbs, with colorful shapes that could be clothing. In the center, shapes form the vague appearance of a person in a light blue shirt with light brown skin holding a brown oval. Other people seem to reach towards this person, with disembodied hands pointing towards the center of the painting. At the bottom of the painting, several sets of legs and feet are visible. At the top, white curving shapes could indicate smoke or clouds.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 225.4 x 183 cm (88 3/4 x 72 1/16 in.)
    framed: 229.2 x 186.1 cm (90 1/4 x 73 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1970.11.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Left 1916 by the artist at the Gallery Dalmau, Barcelona; Dalmau family, Barcelona; purchased 1953/1955 by Stephen Hahn and (Janis Gallery, New York); sold 1955 to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, New York;[1] sold to (Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York); purchased May 1970 by NGA.
[1] The details of the provenance are provided in a letter of 10 February 1970 from Daniel Robbins to J. Carter Brown, copy in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1913

  • Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin, September-December 1913, no. 147.

  • 29me Exposition, Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, March-May 1913, no. 1293.

1916

  • Galerie Dalmau, Barcelona, 1916, no. 31.

1955

  • New Arrivals From France, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1955, no cat.

1964

  • Albert Gleizes 1881-1953: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, 1964-1965, no. 40 (New York cat.) and no. 18 (Dortmund cat.).

1969

  • 20th Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969, unnumbered catalogue.

1970

  • The Cubist Epoch, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970-1971, no. 98, pl. 63.

1978

  • Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 14, repro.

1988

  • Stationen der Moderne: Die bedeutenden Kunstausstellungen des 20. Jahrhunderts in Deutschland, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 1988-1989, no. 3/18, repro.

2001

  • Albert Gleizes: El cubismo en majestad, Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, 2001, no. 37, repro.

2002

  • The Avant-Garde in Danish and European Art 1909-19, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 2002-2003, no. 24, repro.

2008

  • Le Futurisme à Paris: une avant-garde explosive, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome; Tate Modern, London, 2008-2009, no. 59, repro. (shown only in Paris).

2012

  • Der Sturm - Zentrum der Avantgarde, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2016

  • Apollinaire: le regard du poète, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2016, no. 98, repro.

2018

  • The Cubist Cosmos: From Picasso to Léger, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Basel, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1972

  • Apollinaire, Guillaume. Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918. Edited by Leroy C. Breunig. Translated by Susan Suleiman. New York, 1972: 282, 285, 292, 338.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 154, repro.

  • Robbins, Daniel. "The Formation and Maturity of Albert Gleizes: A Biographical and Critical Study, 1881-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, New York University. Ann Arbor, 1975: 113-114, 163-164.

1982

  • Buckberrough, Sherry A. Robert Delaunay: The Discovery of Simultaneity. Ann Arbor, 1982: 167-171, no. 60.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 179, repro.

1998

  • Albert Gleizes: catalogue raisonné. 2 vols. Paris, 1998: 1:148, no. 404, repro.

  • Pinkus, Karen. “Sport." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 2:856.

Inscriptions

lower left: Albert Gleizes / 1912-13; center right reverse: 25 nov[e]mbre 191[?]

Wikidata ID

Q1362126

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