Object Information

Georges Braque
French, 1882–1963

Landscape at L'Estaque, autumn 1906

Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 28 5/8 in. (60.3 x 72.7 cm)
Signed, l.l.: "G. Braque"
Restricted gift of Friends of the Art Institute of Chicago in honor of Mary Block; Walter Aitken, Martha Leverone, and Major Acquisitions Centennial endowments, 1981.65

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Les Fauves, November 13–23, 1950, cat. 1 (ill.). as Estaque.

New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, September 29–October 31, 1953, n. p., cat. 6.

New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Braque: An American Tribute, April 7–May 2, 1964, cat. 8 (ill.).

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. 46 (ill.); traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum, 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. 46 (ill.),

Tokyo, ASAHI Shimbun, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, pp. 90–91, cat. 23 (ill.); traveled to Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, April 20, 1994–May 29, 1995; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994: Yokohama Museum of Art, August 6 1994–September 25, 1994.

Publication History

George Isarlov, Collection Orbes: Georges Braque 3 (Paris: José Corti, 1932), p. 15, no. 26, as Paysage du Midi, 1907.

Jean-Paul Crespelle, The Fauves, trans. by Anita Brookner (Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1962), pl. 58.

Alvin Martin, “Georges Braque: Stylistic Formation and Transition, 1900–1909,” Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1979, pp. 98–100, 112, 318, and 349, fig. 60.

Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block (New York: Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, 1981), lot 333A (ill.).

Alan G. Artner, “Art Institute acquires a Braque Landscape,” Chicago Tribune (July 9, 1971).

Braque, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Isetan Museum of Art, 1988), p. 15, fig. 1.

James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), p. 112 (ill.).

Comprehensive Therapy, The American Society of Contemporary Medicine and Surgery (Oct. 1993) (ill.).

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. 17 (ill.).

Ownership History

Sold by Galerie Beyeler, Basel, to Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Chicago, 1958 [New York 1958 and interview with Leigh Block, 1985]; sold, Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, New York, May 20, 1981, lot. 333A, to Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1981, for the Art Institute.