LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

42.40 in. (107.70 cm.) (height) by 35.08 in. (89.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'G Braque 41’ (lower right)

Exhibited:

Kunsthalle Bern, Georges Braque , April-May 1953, p. 12, no. 88. Paris, Musée du Louvre, L’Atelier de Braque , November 1961, no. 37. London, Royal Academy of Arts and Houston, The Menil Collection, Braque : The Late Works , January-August 1997, p. 34, no. 1 (illustrated in color, p. 35). St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University and Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection, Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945 , January-September 2013, p. 229 (illustrated in color, pl. 30)

Literature:

G. Besson, intro., Couleurs de maîtres 1900-1940 , Lyon, 1942 (illustrated in color, pl. 20). J. Paulhan, Braque le patron , Geneva, 1946, p. 127 (illustrated). L. Degand, “Par la lettre et l’image” in Les Lettres Françaises , 25 October 1946 (illustrated). Pour l’art , no. 5, September-October 1949 (illustrated; titled Intérior ). Galerie Maeght, ed., Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque, Peintures, 1936-1941 , Paris, 1961 (illustrated, pl. 81 and illustrated again in color). S. Fumet, Georges Braque , Paris, 1965, p. 217 (illustrated in color, p. 135). F. Ponge, “Feuillet votif” in Nouveau Recueil , Paris, 1967, p. 190. F. Ponge, P. Descargues and A. Malraux, G. Braque , New York, 1971, p. 48. R. Cogniat, G Braque , Paris, 1976, p. 60 (illustrated, pl. 41). F. Ponge, “L’Atelier contemporain” in Oeuvres complètes , Paris, 2002, vol. II, p. 706. A. Danchev, Georges Braque: A Life , New York, 2005, p. 214

Provenance:

Galerie Louise Leiris (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler), Paris (by 1942). André Lefèvre, Paris. Mme Frigerio, Paris (by 1953). Robert Kahn-Sriber, Paris. Private collection, France; sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 1 July 1975, lot 50. Acquired at the above sale by the family of the present owners