Object Information

Georges Braque
French, 1882–1963

Still Life with Fruits and Stringed Instrument, 1938

Oil on canvas
45 x 58 in. (114.3 x 145.5 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "G Braque 38"
Gift of Mary and Leigh Block, 1988.141.6

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Rosenberg and Helft, Recent Works of Braque, June 13–July 13, 1938, n. p., cat. 22, as Nature Morte au Compotier.

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles.London, Arts Council of Great Britain, G. Braque, 1956, pp. 46–47, cat. 74, pl. 8, as Still-Life with Mandolin; shown in, Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, August 18–September 15, 1956, and London, Tate Gallery, September 28–November 11, 1956.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May 4–June 11, 1967, cat. 49 (ill.), as Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin; traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, September 21–November 2, 1967.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, February 2–April 14, 1968, n. p., cat. 49 (ill.), as Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Braque: The Great Years, October 7–December 3, 1972, pp. 21 and 73, cat. 21, pl. 10, fig. 53, as Still Life with a Mandolin, Fruit and a Roll of Paper on a Table.

Paris, Orangerie des Tuileries, Georges Braque, October 16, 1973–January 14, 1974, pp. 43–44, and 125, cat. 89 (ill.).

Publication History

Catalogue de l’Oeuvre de Georges Braque: Peinture 1936-1941 (Paris: Maeght, 1961), n. p., no. 32 (ill.), as Nature Morte au Rouleau de Musique.Jean Leymarie, Braque, trans.

James Emmons (Paris: Skira, 1961), pp. 84–85 (ill.).

Jean Leymarie, Braque, Collection Le Goût de notre Temps (Geneva: Skira, 1961), pp. 84-85 (ill.).

Tadashi Miyagawa, Georges Braque (Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1963), p. 51 (ill.).

John Richardson, Georges Braque (Greenwich, Conn.; New York Graphic Society, 1961), n. p., pl. 40.

Stanislas Fumet, Braque (Paris: Maeght, 1965), p. 116 (ill.).

Douglas Cooper, Braque: The Great Years, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1972), pp. 21 and 73, cat. 21, pl. 10, fig. 53.

Shinichi Segui, Braque/Léger (Tokyo; Shueisha, 1972), p. 121, pl. 25.

Raymond Cogniat, Georges Braque, trans. by I. Mark Paris (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1980) (cover ill.).

Jean Leymarie, Georges Braque, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1988), p. 28, fig. 6, as Still Life with a Mandolin.

Christopher Green, The European Avant-Gardes: Art in France and Western Europe, 1904-1945 (London: Zwemmer, 1995), p. 70, fig. 1.

James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Paintings and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), p. 80 (ill.).

Ownership History

The artist to Paul Rosenberg and Company, New York [London 1938]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Chicago, February 27, 1947 [Block stock card]; given to the Art Institute, 1988.