| Football Players | |
|---|---|
| French: Les Joueurs de football | |
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| Artist | Albert Gleizes |
| Year | 1912–13 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 225.4 cm × 183 cm (88.75 in × 72.04 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
Football Players (French: Les Joueurs de football) is a 1912–13 painting by the French artist Albert Gleizes. The work was exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, March–May 1913 (no. 1293). September through December 1913 the painting was exhibited at Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon, Berlin (no. 147). The work was featured at Galeries Dalmau in Barcelona, 29 November – 12 December 1916 (no. 31), Gleizes' first one-person show.[1] The work was again exhibited at Galeries Dalmau 16 October – 6 November 1926 (no. 7).[2] Stylistically Gleizes' Football Players exemplifies the principle of mobile perspective laid out in Du "Cubisme", written by himself and French painter Jean Metzinger. Guillaume Apollinaire wrote about Les Joueurs de football in an article titled "Le Salon des indépendants", published in L'Intransigeant, 18 March 1913, and again in "A travers le Salon des indépendants", published in Montjoie!, Numéro Spécial, 18 March 1913.[3]
Les Joueurs de football was left by the artist at Galeries Dalmau in 1916. Titled Jugadors de Futbol, the painting was reproduced in the avant-garde Catalan magazine L'Amic de les arts, November 1926. The caption included the inscription Collection Joseph Dalmau.[4]
It was purchased from the Dalmau family between 1953 and 1955 by Stephen Hahn and (The Sidney Janis Gallery); sold in 1955 to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Subsequently the work was sold to the Marlborough-Gerson gallery, New York, and purchased May 1970 by the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington D.C.[5]
- ^ Exposició Albert Gleizes, 29 November – 12 December 1916, Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona (catalogue)
- ^ Exposició de Modernisme Pictòric Català. 1926, Galeries Dalmau, Barcelona, 16 October – 6 November 1926 (cat. no. 7). Ajuntament de Girona
- ^ "A travers les Indépendants", Montjoie!, Numéro Spécial, Guillaume Apollinaire, , 18 March 1913
- ^ L'Amic de les arts, Gaseta de Sitges, Any 1, núm. 8 (nov. 1926), p. 3
- ^ Albert Gleizes, Football Players, National Gallery of Art