About This Artwork

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Still Life with Glass, Dice, Newspaper and Playing Card, 1913

Oil on canvas mounted on hardboard
13 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. (34.6 x 23.8 cm)
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Bequest of Mima de Manziarly Porter, 1989.51.1

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

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

“Revue des Ventes: Séquestre Kahnweiler,” Gazette de L’hôtel Drouot (November 19, 1921), p. 1, no. 32, as Nature Morte.

L.-Maurice Lang, ed. Annuaire des ventes de tableaux, dessins, aquarelles, pastels, gouaches, miniatures: guide du Marchand, de l’Amateur IV (Octobre 1921–fin Juillet 1922), p. 55.

Germain Seligmann, Merchants of Art, 1880-1960: Eighty Years of Professional Collecting (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1961), pl. 70a.

George Isarlov, Collection Orbes: Georges Braque 3 (Paris: José Corti, 1932), p. 19, no. 188.

Nicole Worms de Romilly and Jean Laude, Braque, le Cubism, fin 1907-1914 (Paris: Maeght, 1982), pp. 230 and 286, no. 218 (ill.), as Glass and Dice.

Judith Cousins and Hélène Seckel, “Chronology of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 to 1939,” in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Studies in Modern Art 3 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pp. 193-95, as Picasso, Le Jour.

Eduard Sebline, Jacques Doucet: Collecting Modernism 1912-1929, unpublished M.A. thesis, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 2000), no. 3 (ill.).

Ownership History

The artist to Galerie Kahnweiler; sold, Hôtel Drouot, 2nd Kahnweiler sequestration sale, Nov. 17–18, 1921, lot 32, to Jacques M. Netter, Paris [Gazette de L’Hôtel Drouot, November 19, 1921]. Jacques Doucet (died 1929), Neuilly-sur-Seine, by 1928 [photograph probably taken by Pierre Legrain, 1928, copy in curatorial file]; by descent to his wife Mme. Doucet [identified as Picasso, Le Jour on receipt in Seligmann Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.]; sold to Jacques Seligmann and Company, Sept. 15, 1937 [receipt mentioned above and Porter Estate document, c. 1938–49, in curatorial file]; sold to Mima de Manziarly Porter, Chicago and New York, Nov. 2, 1937 [Porter Estate document mentioned above]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1989.