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Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Lot 365 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Fruits dans un plat

Closed21 June 2018

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GBP 220,000–300,000

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Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Fruits dans un plat
signed 'G Braque' (lower right)
oil on paper laid down on canvas
13 x 21 5/8 in. (33 x 55 cm.)
Painted in 1924

Heinz Berggruen, Paris.
Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne (no. 3418).
Acquired from the above by the family of the present owners in 1981.

Specialist note

What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space. (Braque, quoted in J. Golding, Braque: The Late Works, exh. cat., 1997, p. 4).