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Nature morte: prunes
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Georges Braque
Nature morte: prunes
1925
Oil and sand on canvas
32.4 x 40.6 cms (12 3/4 x 16 ins)
Signed Braque and dated 25 lower right (recto)
About
Starting in the 1920s and continuing throughout his career, Braque began combining dirt and sand into his paint, ascribing the objects and compositions he depicted with more body. As seen in Nature Morte: Prunes (1925), this unique finish came to create a unique balance between the delicate nature of the fruit and the muted tone of the brown background. The plums, painted in such a deep purple, and the light cloth, with arm-like features that caress the fruit, are juxtaposed to the textured surface, demonstrating Braque’s timely predilection for depth over playful compositions. Though small in size, the introduction of these natural elements into the tableaux allow the subject to transcend the boundaries of its very existence, giving the painting the breadth of a much bigger work.
According to John Golding, an expert on the artist, “after 1917 Braque’s production tends to fall into two very general categories: large works, often executed in series, and smaller, more intimate, and more disparate works. These ‘cabinet’ pictures share some of the iconography and concerns of the larger pictures, and sometimes they help to resolve the new pictorial challenges that Braque constantly set for himself”.
Provenance
Paul Rosenberg, Paris
The Drs. Bakwin, New York (acquired from the above in 1927) Thence by descent,
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
George Isarlov, Catalogue des oeuvres de Georges Braque, Paris, 1932, no. 383
Galerie Maeght, ed., Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Georges Braque, peintures 1924-1927, Paris, 1962, illustrated p. 62
Gregory Selch, ed., The Bakwin Collection, Paintings and Sculpture, 1925-1970, Collected by Drs. Ruth & Harry Bakwin, New York, 2004, illustrated in color n.p.
Exhibited
New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc, The Dr. and Mrs. Harry Bakwin Collection, 1967 - More Information
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