About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Still Life on a Pedestal Table, c. 1920

Gouache and watercolor, with graphite on tan wove tracing paper, laid down on cream laid paper, prepared with a gouache ground, on board
265 x 177 mm
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: "G Braque"
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, 1998.722

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Arts.

New York, New Gallery, "10th Anniversary Exhibition," September 14–October 31, 1959, n. p., cat. 4 (ill.).

Basel, Gallery Beyeler, "Water Colors: Drawings, Gouaches," January–March 1969, n. p., cat. 4 (ill.).

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, "Twentieth Century Drawings from Massachusetts Collections," Summer 1979.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1979.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings," June 11–September 7, 1999, checklist 9.

Ownership History

Clay Bartlett [New York 1959]. Pierre Matisse Gallery (opened 1931), New York [New York 1959]. New Gallery, New York, by September 1959 [New York 1959]. La Boetie, Inc., New York, to Galerie Beyeler, Basel, October 17, 1968 [letter from Bernard Dütting of Galerie Beyeler, of February 3, 2004 in curatorial file]; sold, April 9, 1969, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.