GEORGES BRAQUE
(1882 - 1963)
Paysage près d'Anvers
1906
Oil on canvas
38 x 46
signed lower left ‘G. Braque’
PROVENANCE
Mr. and Mrs. Philippe Boulart (acquired on or before 1948).
Thence by decent.
Private collection, California.
EXPERTISE
The work is registered in the Braque Studio Archive under the name Boulart, which was confirmed by Quentin Laurens.
EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
Paris, Paris Musée National d’ Art Moderne, Depuis Bonnard, 23 March – 18 May 1957, no. 50. Paris, Musée National d’ Art Moderne, Le Fauvisme français et les débuts de L’Expressionisme allemande, 15 January – 6 March 1966; this exhibition travelled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, 26 March – 15 May 1966, p. 37, no. 2 (illustrated p. 37).
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Matisse und seine Freunde, 25 May – 10 July 1966, no. 1 (illustrated p. 1).
Le Havre, Le nouveau Musée du Havre, Georges Braque, 15 April – 15 May 1967, no. 2.
London, Royal Academy, French painting since 1900: from private collections in France, 30 August – 30 November 1969, no. 24.
LITERATURE
J. Russell, Georges Braque, London 1959, no. 3 (illustrated in color).
A. R. Martin, Georges Braque: Stylistic Formation and Transition, 1900-1909, PhD Dissertation, Harvard University 1979, no. 37 (illustrated p. 341).