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Man with a Pipe

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Man with a Pipe is a Cubist oil-on-canvas painting made in 1911 and 1912 by the French artist Jean Metzinger, measuring 92.7 by 65.4 centimeters. It depicts a seated man with his arms crossed and a pipe in his mouth at a table set with a mug of beer, wearing a jacket and tie, with an American vase and a portrait hanging on the wall behind him; Metzinger described such compositions as seeking a total image of the subject by representing it from multiple angles simultaneously rather than depicting motion. The painting had been held at the Wriston Art Center Galleries at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, after being gifted by Howard Green, but has been missing since 1998, having disappeared in transit while on loan between 27 July and 2 August of that year. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1911 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Painting, Art Forms
Source Man with a Pipe (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Man with a Pipe (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Genre reference
    Man with a Pipe is a Cubist oil-on-canvas painting made in 1911 and 1912 by the French artist Jean Metzinger, measuring 92.
  • infobox year field: 1911-12
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Man with a Pipe, also referred to as Portrait of an American Smoker, Portrait of an American Smoking, American Smoking and American Man, is a painting by the French Cubist artist Jean Metzinger. The work was reproduced on the cove
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