Still Life with Apples

Prints and Drawings

c. 1934

Georges Braque
French, 1882-1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Georges Braque
Title: Still Life with Apples
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.: Made 1929–1939
Medium: Red pastel, with smudging, erasing, and red-orange conté crayon on cream wove paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, in brownish-red conté crayon: "G. Braque"
Dimensions: 49.7 × 66.8 cm (19 5/8 × 26 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1998.724
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Maurice Gieure, braque: dessins (Paris, 1955), n. p., pl. 40, as The Small Round Table.
Maurice Gieure, George Braque (New York, 1956), p. 101 and pl. 81, as Still Life: Apples on a Table.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago, 2006), pp. 16 and 18.

New York, Museum of Modern Art, “Georges Braque,” January 26–March 13, 1949, pp. 121 and 162, cat. 89 (ill.), as Apples; traveled to Cleveland, Museum of Art, March 29–June 15, 1949.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, December 1979.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawn to Form: Modern Drawings,” June 11–September 7, checklist 8.

Richard S. Davis, Wayzata, Minn., by 1949-at least 1956 [New York 1949; Gieure 1956]. Jacques O’Hana Gallery, London; sold, Sotheby’s, South Africa, March 4, 1975, lot 30, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute, 1998.

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