Georges Braque

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Fan account of Georges Braque, a French painter, collagist, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor. 1882-1963 Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social

In early 1908, Georges Braque began an artistic collaboration with Pablo Picasso. From 1909 until Braque was mobilized for World War I, they worked in creative dialogue, breaking down and reformulating the representation of objects and their structure. In doing so, they pioneered one of the most radical artistic revolutions of the twentieth century, Cubism. Little Harbor in Normandy is the first fully realized example of Braque’s early Cubist style. He described the English Channel coast in severe geometries and a sober palette, reduced in range and intensity to pale shades of color. His compressed treatment of space and use of a shifting perspective seems to propel the two sailboats forward to the front edges of the picture. To further energize the scene, the artist added a fringe of whitecaps to the sea and dashes of clouds across the sky. His repetitive, striated modeling of form, inspired by his study of the art of Paul Cézanne, increased the rigid tension of this canvas. Documentation suggests that Little Harbor in Normandy was exhibited in Paris in March 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants, making this painting the first major Cubist work to be shown in such a prominent venue. Samuel A. Marx Purchase Fund
The Louis E. Stern Collection
Ciotat
Still life with brown jug
La Ciotat
Oysters
Flower study
Woman with washstand
A man at the easel
Violin and Clarinet on a Table
Still life (with clarinet)
The Pedestal
Woman with Book
Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange)
Helios V, Blue-Violet
The sunflowers
A House at Estaque
date inscribed Presented by C. Frank Stoop 1928
Two Birds
Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld
Glasses and Bottle
Violin and candlestick
Aria de Bach
Violin and Sheet Music on a Table (Petit Oiseau)
The Terrace
Figure double
Man with a violin
Still life with harp and violin
Castle at La Roche Guyon
Still Life Mandolin II
Basket with anemones
Birds in the clouds
Birds
Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld
The Aquarium
Fruit Dish
The Green Jug
Plate and Fruit Dish
Viaduct at Estaque
The Bottle of Rum
Glass and Fruit
Woman with a Guitar
The Musician
Still Life with a Pair of Banderillas
Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund
Head of a Woman
Gift of Gérald Cramer
The Park at Carrières-Saint-Denis
Still Life with "Le Jour"
Glass and Card
date inscribed Purchased 1988
The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection, acquired through the gift of Leon D. and Debra Black, the gift of William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. J. Hall (by exchange), the Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest Fund (by exchange), and the Richard S. Zeisler Bequest (by exchange)
Landscape near Antwerp
Purchased with assistance from the gift of Gustav and Elly Kahnweiler, the Art Fund, Tate Members and the Dr V.J. Daniel Bequest 2003
Leaves in color of light
Bottle and Fish
A Bird Passing through a Cloud
date inscribed Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
La Ciotat