Nature morte au violon (Still life with a violin)

Braque, Georges (1882-1963)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

1912

Height:

62.1 cm  (24 7/16 in.)

Width:

47.8 cm  (18 13/16 in.)

framed: 86.4 × 71.8 × 4.4 cm (34 × 28 1/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

collage of charcoal and varnished 'faux bois' paper

Description

Abstract still life with layered representations of violin shape and parts

Iconclass

48C7311
violin, fiddle
48C7
music

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Violin [3573]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Poggi, Christine, et al. French drawings: Acquisitions 1970–1984, exhibition catalogue (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1984) 22–26, 84, no. 10.


Rothschild, Deborah, ed. Making it new: The art and style of Sara and Gerald Murphy, exhibition catalogue (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007) 209, fig. 2.


Gordon, John Stuart, et al. A modern world: American design from the Yale University Art Gallery, 1920–1950 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2011) 54, fig. 4.


Kahng, Eik, et al. Picasso and Braque: The Cubist experiment 1910–1912, exhibition catalogue (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2011) 103, fig. 15.

RIdIM record id

6089