
Art Institute of Chicago
Ajax
Georges Braque · 1949/54
Provenance
Ownership history
- Aimé Maeght, Paris, after 1954 [Vogue 1954; Worms de Romilly 1959]. Florene May Schoenborn (1903–1995) and Samuel A. Marx (1885–1964), Chicago, from 1955 [New York 1965]; given to the Art Institute, 1997.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, The School of Paris: Paintings from the Florene May Schoenborn and Samuel A. Marx Collection, November 1, 1965–January 2, 1966, p. 30 (ill.), as Ajax, 1949-54; traveled to Chicago, Art Institute, February 11–March 27, 1966; St. Louis, City Art Museum, April 27–June 13, 1966; Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, July 2–August 7, 1966; and San Francisco, Museum of Art, September 2–October 2, 1966.
- Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Georges Braque, 1882–1963, Sept. 16, 2013–Jan. 6 2014; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 16–May 11, 2014.
Literature
Published references
- Kunsthaus Zurich, Georges Braque, exh. cat. (Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1953), 1 (ill).
- Alexander Liberman, “Braque,” Vogue (October 1, 1954), p. 116 (ill.).
- John Richardson, “The Ateliers of Braque,” Burlington Magazine 97:627 (June 1955), p. 164.
- Maurice Gieure, G. Braque (New York, 1956), p. 103, pl. 135.
- Catalogue de l’oeuvre de Georges Braque: Peintures 1948–1957 (Paris, 1959), n. p., no. 78 (ill.), as 1954.
- John Richardson, Georges Braque (London, 1959), pp. 28 and 32, pl. 32.
- John Russell, G. Braque, (New York, 1959), pp. 34 and 126–127, pl. 73.
- Jean Leymarie, Braque, trans. James Emmons (Paris, 1961), pp. 112–114 (ill.).
- John Richardson, Georges Braque (Greenwich, Conn., 1961), n. p., pl. 60.
- Edwin Mullins, The Art of Georges Braque (New York, 1968), pp.129, 189, 196, and 215, pl. 148.
- Nadine Pouillon, Braque (Paris, 1970), p. 13 (ill.).
- Douglas Cooper, Braque: The Great Years, exh. cat. (Chicago, 1972), p. 105, fig. 83.
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