George Braque e a Natureza Morta Cubista, 1928-1945

No início do século 20, Georges Braque e Pablo Picasso inventaram o cubismo e abalaram os fundamentos da arte ocidental. Mas na década de 1930, como a ascensão do fascismo trouxe nova urgência para questões de estética e política - as questões que entraram como consciência prioritária como a Guernica de Picasso (1937) - fizeram com que as naturezas mortas e interiores burgueses fraturadas  de Braque  permanecessem enfaticamente introvertidas.


Georges Braque, Baluster and Skull (recto), 1938. [verso: Still Life with Fruit Dish, c. 1932-33.] Oil on canvas, 17-3/4 x 21-5/8". Private collection. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.


Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
Saint Louis
25 janeiro - 21 abril, 2013

In the early 20th century, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso invented Cubism and shook the foundations of Western art. But in the 1930s, as the rise of fascism brought new urgency to questions of aesthetics and politics — questions that entered mainstream consciousness with Picasso’s Guernica (1937) — Braque’s fractured still lifes and bourgeois interiors remained emphatically inward-looking.



Georges Braque, Lemons and Napkin Ring, 1928. Oil and graphite on canvas, 15-3/4 x 47-1/4”. Acquired 1931, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. © 2012, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.



Georges Braque, Still Life with Palette, 1943. Oil on canvas, 23-5/8 x 31-7/8". Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 136:1956. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.




Georges Braque, Still Life with Glass, 1930. Oil on canvas, 20-3/16 x 25-5/8”. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis. University purchase, Kende Sale Fund, 1946. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.






Georges Braque, Vase, Palette, and Mandolin, 1936. Oil, charcoal, and graphite on canvas, 32 x 39-5/8”. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Purchase with the aid of funds from W. W. Crocker. © 2012 Artists Rights 
Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.





Georges Braque, The Round Table, 1929. Oil, sand, and charcoal on canvas, 57-3/8 x 44-3/4”. Acquired 1934, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.



Georges Braque, Still Life with Fruit Dish (verso), c. 1932-33. [recto: Baluster and Skull, 1938.] Oil on canvas, 17-3/4 x 21-5/8". Private collection. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.



Albert Eugene Gallatin, Georges Braque, 1931. Gelatin silver print, 9-3/16 x 6-5/8" (sheet). Philadelphia Museum of Art: A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952.



Georges Braque, The Napkin Ring, 1929. Oil and sand on canvas, 15-3/4 x 47-1/2”. Indiana University Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry R. Hope. Photo: Michael Cavanaugh and Kevin Montague. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.



Georges Braque, The Crystal Vase, 1929. Oil on canvas, 16-1/4 x 47-1/2”. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 1975.82. Photo © The Cleveland Museum of Art. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.



Georges Braque, Mandolin and Score (The Banjo), 1941. Oil on canvas, 42-1/2 x 35". Collection of Charles and Palmer Ducommun. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris



X-ray of Georges Braque, Still Life with Palette, 1943. Oil on canvas, 23-5/8 x 31-7/8". Saint Louis Art Museum, Gift of Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., 136:1956. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris.