About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Still Life with Apples, c. 1934

Red pastel, with smudging, erasing, and red-orange conté crayon on cream wove paper
497 x 668 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in brownish-red conté crayon: "G. Braque"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.724

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Georges Braque," January 26–March 13, 1949, pp. 121 and 162, cat. 89 (ill.), as Apples; traveled to Cleveland, Museum of Art, March 29–June 15, 1949.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1979.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, checklist 8.

Publication History

Maurice Gieure, braque: dessins (Paris, 1955), n. p., pl. 40, as The Small Round Table.

Maurice Gieure, George Braque (New York, 1956), p. 101 and pl. 81, as Still Life: Apples on a Table.

Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2006), pp. 16 and 18.

Ownership History

Richard S. Davis, Wayzata, Minn., by 1949-at least 1956 [New York 1949; Gieure 1956]. Jacques O’Hana Gallery, London; sold, Sotheby’s, South Africa, March 4, 1975, lot 30, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.