About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882–1963

Fruits and Stringed Instrument, 1938

Oil and sand on canvas
32 x 39 3/8 in. (81.3 x 100 cm)
Signed, l.l.: " G. Braque/38"
Gift of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker in memory of her husband, Albert D. Lasker, 1959.505

© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Rosenberg and Helft, Exhibition: Recent Works of Braque, June 13–July 13, 1938, cat. 19, as Nature Morte, Fruits, Guitare.

Dallas, Tex., Museum of Fine Arts, An Exhibition of Sixty-Nine Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, March 6–29, 1953, cat. 7 (ill.), as Fruits and Guitar.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, An Exhibition of Sixty-Seven Paintings From the Collection of Mrs. Albert D. Lasker For the Benefit of The American Cancer Society InMmemory of Albert D. Lasker (1880–1952), March 17–April 4, 1954, n. p., cat. 10 (ill.), as Fruits and Guitar.

New York, Paul Rosenberg and Company, Braque: An American Tribute, April 7–May 2, 1964, cat. 33 (ill.), as Fruit and Mandolin, 1937–38.

Publication History

Wallace Brockway and Alfred Frankfurter, The Albert D. Lasker Collection: Renoir to Matisse (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957), pp. 77-78 (ill.), as Fruits and Guitar.

The Art Institute of Chicago Quarterly LIII & LIV (February 1960), pp. 12-13 (ill.), as Fruits and Guitar.

Catalogue de l’Oeuvre de Georges Braque: Peintures 1936-1941 (Paris: Maeght, 1961), n. p., no. 34 (ill.), as Nature Morte a la Guitare (rideaux rouges), 1937–1938.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 58, as Fruits and Guitar.

A. James Speyer, “Twentieth-Century European Paintings and Sculpture,” Apollo LXXXIV (September 1966), p. 225, as Guitar and Fruits.

Instituto de Arte de Chicago (El Mundo de los Museos) (Buenos Aires: Editorial Codex, 1967), pp. 14 and 71, fig. 1, no. 57, as Frutas y guitarra.

Atsushi Miyagawa, L’Art du Monde: Braque/Leger 18 (Japan: Kawade Shobo, 1968), p. 105, pl. 26, as Fruits and guitare.

Sandra Grung, Supplement to Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1971), p. 58A.

A. James Speyer and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth-Century European Paintings (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 33–34, no. 1B11, as Fruits and Guitar.

Ownership History

The artist to Paul Rosenberg and Company, London and New York, 1938 [London 1938]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Albert D. Lasker, New York, January 1947; given to the Art Institute, 1959.