Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Vase de feuilles
oil and gouache over pencil on joined paper laid down on canvas
18¾ x 25 1/8 in. (47.6 x 63.8 cm.)
Painted in 1942
Provenance
Galerie Louise Leiris, Paris.
Galería Theo, Madrid.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 10 May 2001, lot 451.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Exhibited
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Fukuoka Art Museum; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art and Yokohama, Sogo Museum of Art, Georges Braque, July-December 1988, pp. 113-114, no. 27 (illustrated).
Lot Essay
Quentin Laurens has confirmed this work (photo no. 1673) will be included in his forthcoming supplement to the Braque catalogue raisonné.