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On Display

Permanent collection

Georges Braque

Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882 - Paris, 1963

Still Life

Date 1910-11
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 33.3 x 24.1
Standard ref. Mangin (Worms de Romilly), 1982, 106
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.2009-0001

Provenance

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, acquired from the artist; Sequestrated by the French government during World War I; Vente de biens allemends ayant fait l'objet d'une mesure de Séquestre de guerre, collection Henry Kahnweiler, tableaux modernes, 2ème vente, Drouot, Paris, 17-18 November 1921, Lot 3 (as Nature morte); Galerie Simon, Paris, acquired at the above sale; Alfred Flechtheim, Berlin, 1922; Galerie Nierendorf, Cologne, by 1925; Sotheby's London sale, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, 29 March 1988, Lot 35 (as Verre); Daniele Pascali, Lucca, Italy; Harriet Griffin Fine Arts, New York; Private Collection, from 1989 to 2008; [Christie's New York sale, Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Part I, 11 November 1997, Lot 148 (as Verre), not sold]; Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York. It has been checked on the Art Loss Register and is not registered as being stolen or missing [certificate dated 17 November 2008]; Purchased by the NMWA, 2009.

Exhibition History

2014
The Rings from The Hashimoto Collection of The National Museum of Western Art, The National Museum of Western Art, 8 July 2014 - 15 September 2014, cat. no. 349
2022
Picasso and His Time: Masterpieces from Museum Berggruen/Nationalgalerie Berlin, The National Museum of Western Art, 8 October 2022 - 22 January 2023, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 4 Febrary 2023-21 May 2023, cat. no. 18, col repr.
2023
La Révolution Cubiste: Exposition de la collection du Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo, 3 October 2023 - 28 January 2024, Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, 20 March 2024-7 July, cat. no. 30

Bibliography

1932
George Isarlov, Georges Braque, José Corti, Paris, 1932, no.95 (as Verre)
1982
Mangin (Worms de Romilly), Nicole; Laude, Jean. Braque: Le Cubisme, fin 1907-1914. Paris, Maeght, 1982, p.140, no.106, repr. (as Verre)
2011
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 44 (Apr. 2009-Mar. 2010), 2011, Murakami, Hiroya. New Acquisitions. pp. 11-13, List of New Acquisitions. p. 47, repr.
2013
Masterpieces: The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The Western Art Foundation, 2013 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 118, col. repr.
2014
The Rings: from the Hashimoto Collection of the National Museum of Western Art (exh. cat.). Iizuka, Takashi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2014, p. 303, cat. no. 349, col. repr.
2022
Picasso and His Time: Masterpieces from Museum Berggruen/Nationalgalerie Berlin (exh. cat.). Murakami, Hiroya, ed. Tokyo, Kyodo News, 2022, pp. 72-73, cat. no. 18, col. repr.
2023
La Révolution Cubiste: Exposition de la collection du Centre Pompidou, Paris (exh. cat.). Musée national d'art occidental, Tokyo; Kyoto City Museum of Art(Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art); Nikkei Inc., eds. Tokyo, Nikkei Inc., 2023, pp. 73, 326, cat. no. 30, col. repr.

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