9/20/2023 0 Comments Cubism still lifeAlthough Braque did not exhibit frequently during World War II, in 1943 he was honored with a special room of recent works at the Salon d’Automne in Paris. In the 1930s, Braque’s art continually appeared in major international exhibitions and publications as his European and American supporters encouraged interest in his work. Starting in the 1920s, Duncan Phillips, founder of The Phillips Collection, helped to introduce Braque’s paintings to a wider American audience through acquisitions and installations. In Still Life on a Red Tablecloth (1934), painted and incised patterns provide surface variation to the layered fabrics on the table and heighten the color. In The Pink Tablecloth (1933) and Fruit, Glass, and Mandolin (1938), Braque added powdered quartz and sand to a white ground to evoke intricate textures. Other paintings show Braque’s interest in conveying the physicality of objects and surrounding space. Used as models for marble panels in the Paris apartment of Braque’s art dealer Paul Rosenberg, the four canvases reveal aspects of Braque’s process all were in his studio at the same time at various stages of completion, as he reworked them over several years. Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 brings together for the first time in 80 years the Braque paintings known as the Rosenberg Quartet (1928–29).
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