Nature morte au violon (Still Life with a Violin) Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963)

Medium

Collage of charcoal and varnished 'faux bois' paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24 7/16 × 18 13/16 in. (62.1 × 47.8 cm)
framed: 34 × 28 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (86.4 × 71.8 × 4.4 cm)

Credit Line

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Class of 1913, Fund, Susan Vanderpoel Clark Fund, and Edith M. K. Wetmore Fund

Accession Number

1977.155

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Bibliography
  • John Stuart Gordon et al., A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011), 54, fig. 4
  • Eik Kahng et al., Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment 1910–1912, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011), 103, fig. 15
  • Deborah Rothschild, ed., Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), 209, fig. 2
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Additional information

Object/Work type

abstract (general art genre), still lifes

Inscriptions

Signed in graphite, verso, l.l.: G Braque

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