Fox Artist: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963)

1911

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room

In this café still life, Georges Braque fragments form with the staccato lines and cross-hatchings of the drypoint technique. The English word FOX in the upper right refers to a bar frequented by Cubist poets and painters near the Saint-Lazare train station in Paris, while OLD TOM GIN at its center refers to an old-style gin used to make a Tom Collins cocktail. Picasso would incorporate English, Italian, Spanish, and Russian letters and words into his Cubist works, though he most often used French.

Medium

Drypoint

Dimensions

platemark: 21 3/8 × 14 7/8 in. (54.29 × 37.78 cm)

Credit Line

University purchase

Accession Number

1949.79

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Prints

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Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Bibliography
  • Susan Greenberg Fisher et al., Picasso and the Allure of Language, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2009), 237
Object copyright
Copyright Artist/Estate/Foundation
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

drypoints

Edition

Edition 100

Inscriptions

Signed in pencil below plate right "G Braque"

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