Nature morte, harpe et violon, 1911
Georges Braque
Information
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)
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