Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape at L'Estaque

Georges Braque · 1906

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, after 1907 to before 1914 [Kahnweiler photo no. 1178; Isarlov 1932]. Max Pellequer, Paris, by 1957 [email from Ulf Kuester, Mar. 3, 2021; copy in curatorial object file]; Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1957 [Block collection card; copy in curatorial file]; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Leigh Block, Chicago, Aug. 1958 [Block collection records cited above; interview with Leigh Block, 1985]; sold, Sotheby’s Parke Bernet, New York, May 20, 1981, lot. 333A, to Allan Frumkin Gallery, 1981, on behalf of the Art Institute.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, Saidenberg Gallery, Georges Braque, 1882–1963: An American Tribute, cat. 8, as Landscape at La Ciotat, 1907, Apr. 7–May 2, 1964.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 100 European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, May 4–June 11, 1967, cat. 46, as Landscape of La Ciotat, 1907; Los Angeles County Museum, Sept. 21–Nov. 2, 1967; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 2–Apr. 14, 1968.
Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Masterworks of Modern Art from The Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 23, as Landscape at La Ciotat, 1907; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
Paris, Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Georges Braque, 1882–1963, Sept. 16, 2013–Jan. 6 2014, cat. 9; Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, Feb. 16–May 11, 2014.

Literature

Published references

Georges Isarlov, Georges Braque (Paris: José Corti, 1932), p. 15 (no. 26), as Paysage du Midi, 1907.
Gaston Diehl, Les Fauves (Paris: Éditions de Chêne, 1948), n.p. (pl. 2, ill.).
Jean-Paul Crespelle, Les Fauves (Neuchatel: Ides et Calendes, 1962), pp. 213 (fig. 58, ill.), 355, as Paysage à La Ciotat, 1907.
John Richardson (ed.), Georges Braque, 1882–1963: An American Tribute, exh. cat. (New York: New York Public Education Association, 1964), n.p. (cat. 8, ill.), as Landscape at La Ciotat, 1907.
National Gallery of Art, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967), n.p. (cat. 46, ill.), as Landscape of La Ciotat, 1907.
Museum of Fine Arts, One Hundred European Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1967), n.p. (cat. 46, ill.), as Landscape of La Ciotat, 1907.
Gaston Diehl, The Fauves (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975), pp. 136, 137 (ill.), as Landscape at La Ciotat, 1907.
Alvin Randolph Martin III, “Georges Braque: Stylistic Formation and Transition, 1900–1909” (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1979), pp. 98, 99, 100, 112, 318, 349 (fig. 60, ill.), as Landscape, L’Estaque, 1906.
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture from The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leigh B. Block, sale cat. (New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 20, 1981), n.p. (lot 333A, ill.), as Landscape at La Ciotat, c. 1906–1907.
Alan G. Artner, “Art Institute acquires a Braque Landscape,” Chicago Tribune (July 9, 1981), as Landscape at La Ciotat.
Nobuyuki Senzoku, Georges Braque, exh. cat. (Tokyo: Ato Raifu, 1988), p. 15 (fig. 1, ill.), as Landscape at La Ciotat, c. 1906–7.
James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Master Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1988), p. 112 (ill.), as Landscape at La Ciotat, 1907.

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