Title: Football Players
Description: Les Joueurs de football, also referred to as Football Players, is a 1912-13 painting by the French artist, theorist and writer 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. 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 mars 1913, and again in A travers le Salon des indépendants, published in Montjoie! Numéro Spécial, 18 mars 1913. 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. It was purchased from the Dalmau family between 1953 and 1955 by Stephen Hahn and (); sold in 1955 to Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, New York. Subsequently the work was sold to Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York, and purchased May 1970 by the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington D.C.
Author(s): Albert Gleizes