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Ajax

A vertically oriented, dark abstract painting featuring a tall striding figure in white and black lines with nonuniform areas of blue, red, brown, green, gray, and yellow color.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A vertically oriented, dark abstract painting featuring a tall striding figure in white and black lines with nonuniform areas of blue, red, brown, green, gray, and yellow color.

Date:

1949/54

Artist:

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

About this artwork

Status

On View, Gallery 394

Department

Contemporary Art

Artist

Georges Braque

Title

Ajax

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1949–1954

Medium

Oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Dimensions

Sight: 179 × 71 cm (70 1/2 × 28 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Florene May Schoenborn

Reference Number

1997.447

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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