Collection Online as of December 2, 2023

(French, 1882–1963)

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

Fun Fact

Georges Braque glued an entire page from the newspaper <em>Le Journal</em> 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).