Le Fumeur
Le Fumeur (en. The Smoker), or Man with Pipe, is a Cubist painting by the French artist Jean Metzinger. It has been suggested that the sitter depicted in the painting represents either Guillaume Apollinaire or Max Jacob.<ref name="Joann Moser">Joann Moser, Jean Metzinger in Retrospect, Cubist works, 1910–1921’’, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Trust, University of Washington Press 1985, pp. 44, 56</ref>Nausicaa Dewez, « "... il faut qu’un portrait soit ressemblant pour moi, et bien peint pour la postérité". Le critique d’art face à son portrait », dans Interférences littéraires, nouvelle série, n° 2, « Iconographies de l’écrivain », s. dir. Nausicaa Dewez & David Martens, mai 2009, pp. 41-57 The work was exhibited in the spring of 1914 at the Salon des Indépendants, Paris, Champ-de-Mars, March 1–April 30, 1914, no. 2289, Room 11. A photograph of Le Fumeur was published in Le Petit Comtois (Au Salon des Indépendants, Les chefs-d'œuvre modernes), 13 March 1914, for the occasion of the exhibition. In July 1914 the painting was exhibited in Berlin at Herwarth Walden’s Galerie Der Sturm, with works by Albert Gleizes, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon.Gleizes / Metzinger / Duchamp-Villon / Villon, Der Sturm, Volume 5,