Little Harbor in Normandy

1. Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, before 1914 [London 1983]. Cited as Collection Flechtheim, Düsseldorf and Berlin, by 1926 [Einstein 1926]. Paul (1875–1935) and Elsa (1899–1986) von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin and Börnicke, at least by 1933 [sent by Galerie Alfred Flechtheim for Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Basel 1933, letters from Galerie Alfred Flechtheim to Kunsthalle Basel, Mar. 21, 1933, and Sep. 27, 1933, Staatsarchiv Basel; photocopies in curatorial object file]; Elsa von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Berlin and Börnicke, until at least 1937 [Mayor Gallery, London, log book indicates the painting was delivered in 1936 by “Mendelssohn” and taken by “Frau Mendelssohn” on Nov. 26, 1937]. Sold through Curt Valentin, Buchholz Gallery, New York, to Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909–1988), New York and Warrenton, Va., 1939 to at least 1968 [letter from William Mayglothling, for Chrysler, June 4, 1975, and Mullins 1968; photocopies in curatorial object file]; sold through Eugene V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1970 [invoice from E. V. Thaw and Co., Inc., Apr. 28, 1970; photocopy in curatorial object file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Quai D’Orsay, XXVe Salon des Independants, March 25–May 2, 1909, no. 215, as Paysage.
• Basel, Kunsthalle, Georges Braque, April 9–May 14,1933, p. 15, no. 15., as Der Hafen.
• Chicago, Arts Club, Georges Braque Retrospective Exhibition, November 7–27, 1939, as The Lighthouse; traveled to Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, December 6, 1939–January 6, 1940, no. 15.
• San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Georges Braque Retrospective Exhibition, February 5–March 6, 1940, no. 37.
• Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.; traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 29–May 11, 1941, p. 25, no. 18 (ill.), as The Lighthouse.
• Cleveland, Museum of Art, Cubism and Abstract Art, January 26–March 13, 1949; traveled to New York, Museum of Modern Art, March 29–June 15, 1949, p. 35 (ill.), no. 6, as Port in Normandy.
• Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, G. Braque (London, 1956) August 18–September 15, 1956; traveled to London, Tate Gallery, September 28–November 11, 1956, pp. 29–30, no. 17, plate 19 j.
• New Orleans, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, The World of Art in 1910, November 15–December 31, 1960, n.p., no cat. no, as Harbor in Normandy.
• Provincetown, Mass., Chrysler Art Museum, The Controversial Century, 1859–1950: Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., June 15–September 2, 1962; traveled to Ottowa, National Gallery of Canada, September 27–November 4, 1962, n.p., no cat. no., (ill.), as Harbor in Normandy (The Lighthouse) (Le phare).
• Munich, Haus Der Kunst, Georges Braque: Prädikat des ICOM: "Agréée," October 18–December 15, 1963, p. 35, no. 21, plate 19, as Hafen in der Normandie.
• New York, Finch College Museum of Art, French Landscape Painters from Four Centuries, October 20, 1965–January 9, 1966, n.p., no. 60 (ill.), as Harbor in Normandy.
• Dayton, Art Institute, French Paintings 1789–1929 from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., March 25–May 22, 1960, pp. 111 (ill.), 131, no. 103, as Harbor in Normandy.

• Vauxcelles, Louis, “Le Salon des Indépendants,” Gil Blas 30, 10736 (March 25, 1909).
• de Gachons, Jacques, “La peinture d’apres-demain (?)” Je sais tout 8, 87 (April 15, 1912), p. 350 (ill.), as Petit Port Normand.
• Apollinaire, Guillaume, “Georges Braque,” Der Querschnit 6 (December 1921), p. 211 (ill.), as Der Hafen.
• Raynal, Maurice, Georges Braque (Rome: Valori Plastici, 1924), n.p. (ill.), as Paysage.
• Einstein, Carl, Die Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (Berlin: Im Propyläen, 1926), pp. 298 (ill.), 562, as Der Hafen, 1909.
• Isarlov, George, Georges Braque (Paris: José Corti, 1932), p. 15 (no. 46), as Le Port.
• “Exposition Georges Braque au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bale,” Cahiers d’Art 8 1–2 (1933), p. 14 (ill.).
• Kunsthalle Basel, Georges Braque, exh. cat. (Basel: Kunsthalle, 1933), n.p. (cat. 15), as Der Hafen, 1909.
• Barr, Alfred H., Cubism and Abstract Art (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1936), pp. 37 (cat. 23, fig. 19, ill.), 205, as Seaport, 1908.
• Zervos, Christian, Histoire de l’art contemporain, (Paris: Cahiers d’Art, 1938), p. 224 (ill.), as Le phare, 1909.
• Arts Club of Chicago, Georges Braque Retrospective, exh. cat. (Chicago: Arts Club, 1939), n.p. (cat. 37), as The Lighthouse, 1909.
• Phillips Memorial Gallery, Georges Braque Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1939), n.p. (cat. 15), as The Lighthouse, 1909.

Landscape at L'Estaque

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Antwerp

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Still Life with Fruits and Stringed Instrument

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Woman at an Easel (Green Screen)

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Still Life with Glass, Dice, Newspaper and Playing Card

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Wheatfield

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Ajax

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Still Life

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