About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Still Life with Glass, Fruit Dish and Knife, 1927

Pastel, with touches of charcoal and traces of red Conté crayon on cream wove paper
262 x 654 mm
Signed recto, lower left, in brown pastel: "G Braque" (underlined) and "27"
Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1945.43

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Paris, Paul Rosenberg, 1928.

Paris, Petit Palais, "Les Maîtres de l’art independant, 1895-1937," June-October 1937, cat. 3.

London, Rosenberg and Helft, 1937.

Oslo, Kunstnernes Hus, "Matisse, Picasso, Braque and Laurens," 1938, cat. 71; traveled to Stockholm, Sweden, LiLjeval chs Konsthall; and Copenhagen, Götenborg.

Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Art Gallery, 1943.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Old and New," 1946, p. 10, cat. 5, pl. XXII, cat. by Carl Schniewind.

Publication History

Una E. Johnson, Drawings of the Masters: 20th Century Drawings, Part I: 1900–1940 (New York, 1964), p. 113, pl. 81.

Ownership History

Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1937 [Paris 1937]; sold to the Art Institute, 1945.