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Violin

early 1914

Georges Braque

(French, 1882–1963)

France, 20th century

Cut and pasted papers (newsprint, block-printed or stenciled decorative paper, and faux bois), with charcoal and graphite

Support: Cardboard

Unframed: 71.8 x 51.8 cm (28 1/4 x 20 3/8 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1968.196

Location

not on view

Did you know?

Georges Braque glued an entire page from the newspaper Le Journal on the reverse side of this drawing.

Description

This drawing belongs to a series that Georges Braque made with papier collé, a technique he invented in 1912 that featured collaged elements made from inexpensive wood-patterned wallpaper. Around the same time, Braque's frequent collaborator, Pablo Picasso, was also experimenting with collage, and the two worked closely together until World War I interfered in 1914. Here, Braque represented a violin and glass on a table supported by a single wooden leg. The violin is defined with lines of charcoal, a newspaper fragment, a piece of paper with wood grain, and a strip of decorative patterned paper. Using this combination of materials, Braque placed his subject in a complex space of intersecting planes that defies the logic of representation.

Provenance

probably early 1914-by 1923

(Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, France) ¹

by 1923-by 1967

Jean Paulhan [1884-1968], Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1967-1968

(Albert Loeb & Krugier Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)

1968-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹Galerie Kahnweiler photo no. 1183

Citations

Tzara, Tristan. "Le Papier Collé ou le Proverbe en Peinture." Cahiers d'Art 6 (1931): 61-64. Reproduced: p. 65

Isarlov, George. Georges Braque. Paris: Collection Orbes, 1932. Mentioned: p. 19

Zervos, Christian. "Georges Braque." Cahiers d'Art 8 (1933): 1-28. Reproduced: p. 27

Einstein, Carl. Georges Braque. Paris: Éditions des Chroniques du Jour, 1934. Mentioned and reproduced: plate XXII

Fumet, Stanislas. Braque. Paris: Éditions Braun & Cie, 1945. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 19

L'Atelier de Braque. Exh. Cat. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 17

Dorival, Bernard. "Musée National d'Art Moderne, Les Préemptions de l'État à la Seconde Vente André Lefèvre." La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France 16, no. 2 (1966): 111-120. Mentioned: p. 112; Reproduced: p. 113

Jean Paulhan et ses environs. Exh. Cat. New York: Albert Loeb & Krugier Gallery, 1967. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 4

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 197 archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art. Art of the Twentieth Century in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Dept. of Art History & Education, CMA, 1969. Mentioned: p. 2 archive.org

Henning, Edward B. "Georges Braque, Le Vioncelle." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56 (February 1969): 55-60. Mentioned: pp. 55-60; Reproduced: cover

Henning, Edward B. "Contemporary Art." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 56 (June 1969): 223-224. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 223

Henning, Edward B. "Pablo Picasso, Bouteille, Verre, et Fourchette." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59 (September 1972): 195-203 Mentioned: pp. 197-198; Reproduced: p. 198

Daval, Jean-Luc. Journal de l'art moderne, 1884-1914. Geneva: Skira, 1973. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 259

Joffroy, André Berne, Jean Leymaire, and Michèle Richet. Jean Paulhan à travers ses peintres. Exh. Cat. Paris: Grand Palais, 1974. Mentioned: pp. 207-208, no. 456; Reproduced: p. 30, plate 6

Henning, Edward B. "Acquisitions of Modern Art by Museums." Burlington Magazine (Supplement) 112 (May 1970): 338. Mentioned: p. 338; Reproduced: no. 94

Henning, Edward B. "Picasso: Harlequin With Violin (Si Tu Veux)." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 1 (January 1976): 2-11. Mentioned: p. 3; Reproduced: p. 2

Henning, Edward B. "The Cubist Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art." Apollo 105 (January 1977): 52-56. Reproduced: p. 56

Gross, Lori. "Guitar and Bottle of Marc on a Table." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64 (April 1977): 141-146. Mentioned: p. 144; Reproduced: p. 145

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 242 archive.org

Henning, Edward B. "Two New Cubist Paintings by Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 2 (February 1981): 38-50. Mentioned: p. 40; Reproduced: p. 39

Pouillon, Nadine and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine. Braque: Oeuvres de Georges Braque (1882-1963). Pairs: Musée National d'Art Moderne, 1982. Mentioned: p. 55; Reproduced: p. 54

Monod-Fontaine and E.A. Carmean, Jr. Braque: The Papiers Collés. Exh. Cat. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 126-127, no. 39

Monod-Fontaine and E.A. Carmean, Jr. Georges Braque: Les Papiers Collés. Exh. Cat. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1982. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 148-149, no. 42

Daix, Pierre. Cubists and Cubism. New York: Rizzoli, 1982. Mentioned: p. 161; Reproduced: p. 102

Romilly, Nicole Worms de and Jean Laude. Braque: Le Cubisme, fin 1907-1914. Paris: Maeght, 1982. Mentioned: p. 286; Reproduced: no. 216

Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 114, no. 22

Zurcher, Bernard. Georges Braque: Life and Work. Translated by Simon Nye. New York: Rizzoli, 1988. Mentioned: pp. 108, 124; Reproduced: p. 109

Perruchot, Henri. "Cómo Nació el Cubismo?" Saber Ver 1, no. 6 (September - October 1992): 38-54. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 57

DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. Mentioned: pp. 232-233, 296; Reproduced: p. 233

Sims, Lowery Stokes. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. Mentioned: P. 56; Reproduced: P. 58, fig. 9

Exhibition history

Jean Paulhan et ses environs. Albert Loeb & Krugier Gallery (April 1967).

L'Atelier de Braque. Musée du Louvre, Paris (November 1961).

Georges Braque: The Papiers Collés. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, Cedex 04, France (June 17-September 27, 1982); National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (October 31-January 16, 1983).

Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

Jean Paulhan: à Travers Ses Peintres. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (organizer) (February 1-April 15, 1974).

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).

Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005).

Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015).

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