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GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963)

Lot 416
03.03.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 700 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 416 | GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963)
Estimate value
£ 700 000 – 1 000 000
GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963)

Le moulin à café

signed 'G. Braque' (lower left)

oil and sand on canvas

34 5/8 x 42 in. (87.8 x 106.8 cm.)

Painted in 1942





Provenance

Aimé Maeght, Paris.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, by whom acquired from the above in July 1950.

Lee A. Ault, New York, by whom acquired from the above in January 1951, and thence by descent; sale, Christie's, New York, 13 November 1996, lot 58.

Klaus J. Jacobs Collection, Zurich.

Anonymous sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 1 December 2017, lot 331.

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

C. Zervos, Cahiers d'Art, 1940-1944, Paris, 1944, p. 101 (illustrated).

S. Fumet, Braque, Paris, 1945, pl.1 (illustrated; dated 1943).

M. Gieure, G. Braque, Paris, 1956, no. 107, p. 102 (illustrated; dated 1942-1943).

'Country Dressing - Softly Now', in Vogue, June 1956, p. 93 (illustrated).

J. Russell, Braque, London, 1959, no. 62, p. 125 (illustrated; dated 1942-1943).

Galerie Maeght (ed.), Catalogue de l’œuvre de Georges Braque, Peintures 1942-1947, Paris, 1960, no. 8 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Georges Braque, October - November 1945, no. 6 (with incorrect dimensions).

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Georges Braque, Wassily Kandinsky, Pablo Picasso, September - October 1946, no. 19, p. 6.

Paris, Galerie Maeght, Braque, June 1947, no. 21.

Avignon, Palais des Papes, Exposition de peintures et sculptures contemporaines, June - September 1947, no. 20, p. 10 (dated '1943').

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Contemporary Paintings from Great Britain, The United States and France, November - December 1949, no. 164, p. 21.

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., Georges Braque, An American Tribute, The Late Years (1940-63) and the Sculpture, April - May 1964, no. 6 (illustrated).

Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, The Avant Garde of France, the 1940s and 1950s, June - September 1994, pp. 13, 35 & 41 (illustrated fig. III, p. 35).



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Artist:Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)
Applied technique:Oil, Oil on canvas, Painted
Medium:Canvas, Textile
Art style:Cubism, Modern art
Genre:Still life
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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