Nature morte, harpe et violon - Kunstsammlung NRW / Online-Sammlung

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Artist

Georges Braque

1882
Argenteuil-sur-Seine, Frankreich

1963
Paris, Frankreich

Work data

Material/Technique

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

Image: 116,3 × 81,5 cm
Frame: 145,5 × 109,5 × 8,3 cm

Signature

Bez. verso o.l.: "G Braque"

Accession Number

0126

Catalogue Raisonné

Romilly 95

Acquisition year

1962

Provenance

The painting “Nature morte, harpe et violon” by Georges Braque had been in the possession of the German art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler since 1911 at the earliest, but no later than 1914. At the beginning of the First World War, the assets of Kahnweiler, who had run a gallery of the same name in Paris since 1907, were confiscated by the French state as enemy property and auctioned off at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris from 1921. Braque’s work was offered for sale at the fourth auction of the Kahnweiler collection in May 1923, where it was presumably purchased by Raoul La Roche. Since La Roche finished establishing his collection in 1928, the work must have become his property by that year at the latest; it can be traced there from 1933. The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen purchased the painting “Nature morte, harpe et violon” from the La Roche collection through Galerie Beyeler for its holdings in 1962.

Credit line

Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Exhibitions

Picasso and Braque. Pioneering Cubism, 19.9.1989-15.1.1990, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Picasso und Braque. Die Geburt des Kubismus, 24.2.-2.6.1990, Kunstmuseum Basel
Ein Haus für den Kubismus, 21.6.-24.10.1998, Kunstmuseum Basel
Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Braque, 4.2.-18.5.2002, Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism, 19.4.-22.6.2007, Pace Wildenstein, New York
Silent Revolution - Eine neue Sammlungspräsentation, 26.2.-12.6.2010, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21 Ständehaus, Düsseldorf
Georges Braque 1906 - 1914. Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism, 24.9.2021-22.1.2022, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz, Kleehalle)