In the late 1930s, Braque’s focus turned from still life to interior scenes, culminating in a series of ambitious compositions representing artists at work in their studios. Here a nude model, her body sliced in two by shadow, poses for a painter silhouetted against the curtain. He smokes a cigarette and examines his handiwork—a picture within the picture. Unlike his contemporaries Picasso and Matisse, Braque abandoned study after the live model early in his career. This studio tableau is, therefore, an imaginary scene unrelated to its author’s contemporary practice. The goateed painter depicted bears no physical resemblance to Braque.
Details
- Artist Name: Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963)
- Title: Artist and Model
- Date: 1939
- Medium: Oil and sand on canvas
- Dimensions: 51 1/8 x 70 7/8 in. (129.9 x 180 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1976.05.P
- Copyright: © Georges Braque / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Object Information
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., received 1939, sold 6 February 1976 to;
[M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, stock no. A 10200, sold 6 April 1976 to];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Art in Our Time
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 1939-05-11 to 1939-10
Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition
- Arts Club of Chicago, 1939-11-07 to 1939-11-27
- Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1939-12-06 to 1940-01-06
- San Francisco Museum of Art, 1940-02-05 to 1940-03-06
Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
- Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1941-01-16 to 1941-03-04
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1941-03-29 to 1941-05-11
Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
- Portland Art Museum, 1956-03-02 to 1956-04-15
- Seattle Art Museum, 1956-04-27 to 1956-05-27
- California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1956-06-12 to 1956-07-11
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1956-07-26 to 1956-08-26
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1956-09-08 to 1956-10-07
- City Art Museum of St. Louis, 1956-10-19 to 1956-11-18
- Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1956-11-30 to 1957-01-02
- Detroit Institute of Arts, 1957-01-18 to 1957-02-17
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1957-03-07 to 1957-04-14
The Controversial Century, 1850-1950: Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
- Chrysler Museum, 1962-06-15 to 1962-09-02
- National Gallery of Canada, 1962-09-27 to 1962-11-04
Georges Braque
- Munich, Haus der Kunst, 1963-10-18 to 1963-12-15
[on loan]
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981-02-22 to
[on loan]
- Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum, 1976-04-01 to
Reinstallation of South Wing
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-10-07 to 1995-08-13
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- Frankfurter, Alfred M., Art News, p. 17
- Arts Club of Chicago, Phillips Memorial Gallery, and San Francisco Museum of Art, Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition, 1939, no. 26, no. 9, no. 26
- Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Time, 1939, no. 168
- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1941, no. 30
- Kootz, Samuel M., New Frontiers in American Painting, 1943, pl. 8
- Gieure, Maurice, G. Braque, 1956, pl. 92 p. 118
- Portland Art Museum, Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1956, no. 100
- Mangin, N. S., Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Georges Braque: Peintures, 1936-1941, 1961, no. 52
- Chysler Art Museum, The Controversial Century, 1850-1950: Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., 1962, unnumbered
- Valsecchi, M; and M. Carra, L'Opera completa di Braque dalla compisizione cubista al recupero dell'oggetto 1908-1929, 1971, no. 442 p. 104
- Chastel, Andre, Fables, Forms, Figures, 1978, fig. 268 p. 97
- Fumet, Stanislas, Braque, 1987, pl. 37
- Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 194
- Leymarie, Jean, Braque: les ateliers, 1995, pls. 42, 43 pp. cover, 100
- Westheimer, Dr. Ruth ; Charles Sullivan, The Lover's Companion, 2002, p. 88, 89
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1319 p. 394
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