Fruit, Glass, and Mandolin

1938

Georges Braque

Associated Names
Georges Braque

Painter, French, 1882 - 1963

This painting features a combination of angular and curved shapes that come together to form an abstract still life. In the center, there are forms resembling a plate of purple plums and smaller green grapes alongside a guitar-like shape to the right. Above the instrument is what looks like a wine glass with a bright yellow line curving from the top. Bold colors such as red, black, purple and golden yellow, as well as muted beige and gray tones, highlight the different shapes and the background. The elements are fragmented and assembled in a cubist style, with some lines and shapes overlapping.
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On View

East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103


Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil and sand on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 81 x 100 cm (31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.)
    framed: 90.8 x 109.9 x 3.5 cm (35 3/4 x 43 1/4 x 1 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.47.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Rosenberg & Co., New York and Paris), in 1938. [1] Private collection, New York.[2] Purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA.
[1] Exhibited at Paul Rosenberg Galerie, Paris, in 1938.
[2] Per Catalogue de L'Oeuvre de Georges Braque, Peintures 1936-1941, Paris, 1961: 33.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1938

  • Exposition Braque, Paul Rosenberg, Paris, November-December 1938.

2013

  • Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2013, no. 25, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: G.Braque / 38

Wikidata ID

Q20193159

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