Lot Essay
Quentin Laurens has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
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La bicyclette
Details
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
La bicyclette
oil, sand and charcoal on canvas
57½ x 38¼ in. (146.2 x 97 cm.)
Painted in 1961-1962
La bicyclette
oil, sand and charcoal on canvas
57½ x 38¼ in. (146.2 x 97 cm.)
Painted in 1961-1962
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Literature
F. Ponge, P. Descargues and A. Malraux, G. Braque, Paris, 1971, p. 232 (illustrated in color).
S. Fauchereau, Braque, Paris, 1987, p. 128, no. 156 (illustrated in color).
S. Fauchereau, Braque, Paris, 1987, p. 128, no. 156 (illustrated in color).
Exhibited
Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, and Strasbourg, Musée d'Art Moderne, Georges Braque en Europe, May-November 1982, p. 254, no. 91 (illustrated, p. 255; and in color, p. 39).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Georges Braque, March-September 1988, no. 88 (illustrated in color).
Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Kagoshima City Museum of Art; Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, and Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Rétrospective Georges Braque, June-December 1998, p. 152, no. 81 (illustrated in color).
Munich, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, and New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Georges Braque, March-September 1988, no. 88 (illustrated in color).
Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art; Kagoshima City Museum of Art; Tokyo, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, and Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Rétrospective Georges Braque, June-December 1998, p. 152, no. 81 (illustrated in color).
Sale room notice
Quentin Laurens has confirmed the authenticity of this painting.
There is a 4 in. (10 cm.) wide black boarder around the left and right edges and a 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) boarder around the top of painting that is not shown in the catalogue illustration.
There is a 4 in. (10 cm.) wide black boarder around the left and right edges and a 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.) boarder around the top of painting that is not shown in the catalogue illustration.