An exhibition organised by the Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais in partnership with the Centre Pompidou - curator: Brigitte Leal, general curator, deputy director at the MNAM – Centre Pompidou
To be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from 16 February to 11 May 2014
Georges Braque, Large Nude, winter 1907 - June 1908, oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, dation Alex Maguy-Glass, 2002 © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. Rmn / Georges Meguerditchian © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque (1882-1963) is one of the twentieth century's major artists. He was a painter, engraver and sculptor, but first, as the founder of cubism and the inventor of pasted papers, one of the leading figures in the avant-garde of the early twentieth century before focusing definitively on methodical, serial exploration of still life and landscape painting, which made him the French painter par excellence, the heir to Corot and Chardin and the depository of the classical tradition as well as the precursor of post-war abstraction.
The Grand Palais, is hosting an ambitious retrospective of his oeuvre. It presents all the periods in his art from Fauvism to his last works, culminating in the dazzling series of large studios and birds. The exhibition's chronological design insists on the highlights of his career, such as cubism, the canephors of the twenties, or the last landscapes, which so appealed to Nicolas de Staël. Thanks to the support of the Musée national d’art moderne and major international collections, it gathers the artist's key works and series exploring various themes – landscapes, gueridons, canephors and the complete cycle of the nine Studios (1949-1956) shown for the first time in a single exhibition – which amplify and sum up his experimental work.
Five display cases filled with often unpublished works, documents and photographs (by Man Ray and Cartier-Bresson among others) explore other perspectives: his collaboration with Pablo Picasso in cubism; the resonance between his art and music and his closeness to Erik Satie; and his affinity with poets such as Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge and René Char and important intellectual figures of his time such as Carl Einstein or Jean Paulhan.
Georges Braque, À tire d’aile, 1956-1961. Huile et sable sur toile marouflée sur panneau, 114 x 170,5 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, donation de Mme Georges Braque, 1965. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Adam Rzepka © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Atelier I 1949. Huile sur toile, 92 x 73 cm. Collection particulière. © collection particulière © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Canéphores, 1922. Huile sur toile, 180,5 x 73 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, legs Baronne Eva Gourgaud, 1965. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Jacqueline Hyde © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Compotier et cartes, début 1913. Huile rehaussée au crayon et au fusain sur toile, 81 x 60 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, don de Paul Rosenberg, 1947. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Jacques Faujour © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Compotier et verre (Premier papier collé), 1912. Fusain, papier faux bois collé sur papier, 62,8 x 45,7 cm. The leonard A.Lauder Cubist Trust. © The leonard A.Lauder Cubist Trust © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Femme à la palette, 1936. Huile sur toile, 92,1 x 92,2 cm. Lyon, musée des Beaux-Arts, legs de Jacqueline Delubac, 1997. © Rmn-Grand Palais / René-Gabriel Ojéda / Thierry Le Mage © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Femme nue assise, 1907. Huile sur toile, 55,5 x 46,5 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, donation de Louise et Michel Leiris, 1984. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Philippe Migeat © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Grand intérieur à la palette, 1942. Huile et sable sur toile, 145 x 195,6 cm. Houston, The Menil Collection. © Photo Hickey-Robertson, Houston. The Menil Collection, Houston © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Grand Nu, hiver 1907- juin 1908. Huile sur toile, 140 x 100 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, dation Alex Maguy-Glass, 2002. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Philippe Migeat © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Guitare et verre, 1917. Huile sur toile, 60,1 x 91,5 cm. Otterlo, Kröller-Müller Museum. © Coll.Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, L’Oiseau noir et l’oiseau blanc, 1960. Huile sur toile, 134 x 167,5 cm. Collection particulière. © Leiris SAS Paris © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, La cheminée, 1928. Huile sur toile, 130 x 74 cm. Zurich, Kunsthaus Vereinigung Zürcher Kunsfreunde. © Kunsthaus, Zurich © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, La Mandoline, 1914. Aquarelle, gouache, crayon, papier collé faux bois et carton ondulé, 48,3 x 31,8 cm. Ulm, Ulmer Museum, prêt permanent du Land Baden-Württemberg. © Ulmer Museum © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, La Musicienne, 1917-1918. Huile sur toile, 221,4 x 112,8 cm. Bâle, Kunstmuseum Basel Schenkung Dr. h.c. Raoul La Roche, 1952. © Basel, Kunstmuseum © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Le Château de la Roche Guyon, été 1909. Huile sur toile, 92, 5 x 72,5 cm. Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum. © Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands / photo Peter Cox © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Le Château de la Roche-Guyon, été 1909. Huile sur toile, 73 x 60 cm. Villeneuve-d’Ascq, LaM Lille métropole musée d’Art moderne, d’Art contemporain et d’Art brut, donation de Geneviève et Jean Masurel, 1979. Photo : P. Bernard. © Adagp Paris, 2013
Georges Braque, Le Parc de Carrières-Saint-Denis, 1909-1910. Huile sur toile, 38,5 x 46,5 cm. Madrid, musée Thyssen-Bornemisza. © Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Le Port de l'Estaque, automne 1906. Huile sur toile, 60,5 x 73 cm. Copenhague, Statens Museum for Kunst. © Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Le Port, hiver – printemps 1909. Huile sur toile, 40,6 x 48,2 cm. Washington, National Gallery of Art, gift of Victoria Nebecker Coberly in memory of her son, John W. Mudd. © National Gallery of art, Washington © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Le Viaduc de l’Estaque, début 1908 huile sur toile ; 72,5 x 59 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, dation, 1984. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Jacques Faujour © Adagp, Paris 2013
Georges Braque, Les Poissons noirs, 1942. Huile sur toile, 33 x 55 cm. Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, don de l’artiste, 1947. © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist.Rmn-Grand Palais / Droits réservés © Adagp, Paris 201
Georges Braque, Nature morte au pichet, 1926-1927. Huile sur toile, 192 x 43 cm. Collection particulière. © Cliché Leiris Paris © Adagp, Paris 2013
