About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Still Life, 1914

Collage composed of charcoal, graphite, oil paint, and watercolor on a variety of cut, laid and wove paper elements, laid down on dark tan board
351 x 279 mm
Inscribed verso, center, in charcoal: "G Braque"
Given in memory of Charles Barnett Goodspeed by Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, 1947.879

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Philadelphia, Pa., Pennsylvania Museum of Art, "The Collection of Earl Horter," February 17–March 13, 1934, no cat.

Chicago, The Arts Club, "Modern Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Earl Horter of Philadelphia," April 3–26, 1934, n. p., cat. 11, as Still Life.

Chicago, The Arts Club "Loan Exhibition of Modern Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections in Chicago," November 4–25, 1938, n. p., cat. 7, as Abstraction.

Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, "Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition," December 6, 1939–January 6, 1940, n. p., cat. 18, as Abstraction.

Seattle, Wash., Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, "Intentional Impurity," November 9–December 9, 1973.

Kunsthalle Bielefeld, "Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris," March 11–April 29, 1979, p. 271, cat. 152 (ill.), as Stilleben.

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, "Georges Braque: Les Papiers Colles," June 17–September 27, 1982, pp. 164–165, cat. 50 (ill.), as Le paquet de tabac.

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, "Braque: The Papiers Collés" October 31, 1982–January 16, 1983, p. 136, cat. 48 (ill.), as The Package of Tobacco (Le paquet de tabac).

London, Tate Gallery, "The Essential Cubism: Braque, Picasso, & their Friends, 1907–1920," April 27–July 9, 1983, pp. 108–109, cat. 37 (ill.), as Glass, Newspaper, Packet of Tobacco and Sheet-music.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Joseph Cornell and Twentieth Century Collage," August 3–November 11, 1985, no cat.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism," September 20, 1989–January 16, 1990, p. 318 (ill.).

Philadelphia, Pa., Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection," March 7–May 16, 1999, p. 70, cat. 7.

Publication History

George Isarlov, Collection Orbes: Georges Braque 3 (Paris, 1932), p. 20, no. 199, as Paquet de Tabac.

Una E. Johnson, Drawings of the Masters: 20th Century Drawings, Part I: 1900–1940 (New York, 1964), pp. 118–-119, pl. 87, as Collage.

Marco Valsecchi and Massimo Carra, L’Opera completa di Braque dalla scomposizione cubista al recupero dell’oggetto 1908–1929 (Milan, 1971), pp. 92 and 93, no. 140 (ill.), as Composizione.

Nicole Worms de Romilly and Jean Laude, Braque, le Cubism, fin 1907-1914 (Paris, 1982), pp. 255 and 290, no. 243 (ill.), as Glass and Tobacco.

Bernard Zurcher, Georges Braque: Life and Work, trans. by Simon Nye (New York, 1988), pp. 116–117, pl. 80, as Packet of Tobacco.

Sandy Brooke, Hooked on Drawing: illustrated lessons and exercises for grades 4 and up (Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1996), p. 231 (ill.).

Sandy Brooke, Drawing as Expression: Techniques and Concepts (Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2002), p. 260 (ill.).

Ownership History

Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris [inventory #2244 on back]. Sold, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 12, 1925, lot. 9 (ill.), to Earl Horter (1880-1940), Philadelphia, [Philadelphia 1999]; Mrs. Charles Goodspeed (née Elizabeth Fuller, later Mrs. Gilbert Chapman; 1893–1980), Chicago, from May 9, 1934 [Philadelphia 1999]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.