Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Verre et as de trfle

Details

Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Verre et as de trfle
signed 'G. BRAQUE' (lower centre); signed again, inscribed and dated 'G. Braque Sorgues 1917' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
14 x 18 1/8in. (35.5 x 46cm.)
Painted in Sorgues in the Summer of 1917

Provenance

Dagfinn Werenskiold, Oslo
Jan Krugier Gallery, New York (JK 3975)

Literature

N. S. Mangin, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Georges Braque, Peintures 1916-1923, Paris 1973 (illustrated in colour p. 16).

Exhibited

Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, French Exhibition: from Corot to Gromaire, November-December 1946, no. 84.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Georges Braque, June-September 1988, no. 29 (illustrated in colour).
Marugama, Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Georges Braque Retrospective, June 1998, no. 20 (illustrated in colour p. 77). This exhibition later travelled to Kagoshima, Kagoshima City Museum of Art; Tokyo, the Bunkamura Museum of Art and Mie, Mie Prefectural Art Museum, December 1998.

Lot Essay

The Solomon Guggenheim exhibition catalogue of 1988 commented on this work: "As the inscription on the back of the canvas indicates, this little work...was painted at Sorgues in the summer of 1917, when Pierre Reverdy was there. It belongs to a series of tableaux objets related to the bas-reliefs of the sculptor Laurens, and whose exquisite compositions are inscribed in a variety of shapes; rectangles, lozenges, octagons, mandorlas. The block-lettered signature is integrated into a decorative composition made up of four compartments" (op. cit.).

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