GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This still life embodies the essential characteristics of analytical cubism, the revolutionary mode of painting developed by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso between 1908 and 1912. The artists visually analyzed their subjects, taking apart their external and internal surfaces and re-presenting them from different points of view in a single plane. Although each item in this painting is reduced to a simplified geometry and then compressed to an extreme, one can still discern a liquor bottle, a wine glass, another bottle, and a playing card, all typical objects in cubist works. With its dense, almost flat, aspect and nearly monochromatic palette, the painting precedes by only a few months Braque's shift toward papier-collé collage. The painting once belonged to the dealer Daniel Kahnweiler, an early champion of Picasso and Braque.
Excerpt from
Bonnie Pitman, ed., "Still Life with Bottles and Glasses," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 238.
NOTES
Created 1912
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Braque's Still Life with Bottles and Glasses embodies the essential characteristics of analytical cubism, a style represented in works by Braque and Picasso from 1908 to 1912 in which a subject's internal and external surfaces, as well as different viewpoints and perspectives, are brought together in a single composition. This work appeared in William S. Rubin's groundbreaking exploration of the heroically inventive collaboration of these two artists in the 1989 exhibition Picasso and Braque, Pioneering Cubism, held at The Museum of Modem Art in New York and the Kustmuseum Basel. The picture has also been included in the most important scholarly literature, such as Worms de Romilly and Laude's catalog of Braque's oeuvre from 1907 to 1914, published in Paris in 1982, and Douglas Cooper's Essential Cubism, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Tate Gallery in 1983. Still Life with Bottles and Glasses preserves the freshness and vitality of each brushstroke, the subtle contrasts of lustrous and matte surfaces, and the brilliance of the artist's whites. The mysterious complexity with which Braque invests the ordinary tabletop still life and the rich tactile quality of the painting's surface are fully intact.
[refers to Braque, Still Life with Bottles and Glasses, 1912, 1998.72.McD and Picasso, Bottle of Port and Glass, 1919, 1998.73, and Gris, Guitar and Pipe, c. 1913, 1998.219.McD.]
Excerpt from
Dorothy Kosinski, "The Cubist Challenge," in Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years , ed. Dorothy M. Kosinski (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2003), Pamphlet number 80.
Carl Wuellner, “The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund,” in Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years , ed. Dorothy M. Kosinski (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2003), Pamphlet number 15.
1998.72.McD Braque, Still Life with Bottles and Glasses
This still life embodies all of the essential characteristics of what is termed "analytical cubism," employed by Braque and Picasso between 1908 and 1912, in which a subject's internal and external surfaces, as well as different viewpoints and visual perspectives, are brought together in a single composition. The mysterious complexity with which Braque invests the ordinary tabletop still life and the rich tactile quality of the painting's surface are here beautifully preserved.
Braque, Georges (French, 1882-1963)
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General Description
This still life embodies the essential characteristics of analytical cubism, the revolutionary mode of painting developed by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso between 1908 and 1912. The artists visually analyzed their subjects, taking apart their external and internal surfaces and re-presenting them from different points of view in a single plane. Although each item in this painting is reduced to a simplified geometry and then compressed to an extreme, one can still discern a liquor bottle, a wine glass, another bottle, and a playing card, all typical objects in cubist works. With its dense, almost flat, aspect and nearly monochromatic palette, the painting precedes by only a few months Braque's shift toward papier-collé collage. The painting once belonged to the dealer Daniel Kahnweiler, an early champion of Picasso and Braque.
Excerpt from
Bonnie Pitman, ed., "Still Life with Bottles and Glasses," in Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 238.
Fun Facts
Archival Resources
Web Resources
- Guggenheim, New York~Read a biography of Georges Braque.
- Museum of Modern Art, New York~Learn more about Braque with this educational resource from MOMA.
- Tate, London~Explore cubism with the Tate.
Notes
in EAS- scans and content notebook
Braque's Still Life with Bottles and Glasses embodies the essential characteristics of analytical cubism, a style represented in works by Braque and Picasso from 1908 to 1912 in which a subject's internal and external surfaces, as well as different viewpoints and perspectives, are brought together in a single composition. This work appeared in William S. Rubin's groundbreaking exploration of the heroically inventive collaboration of these two artists in the 1989 exhibition Picasso and Braque, Pioneering Cubism, held at The Museum of Modem Art in New York and the Kustmuseum Basel. The picture has also been included in the most important scholarly literature, such as Worms de Romilly and Laude's catalog of Braque's oeuvre from 1907 to 1914, published in Paris in 1982, and Douglas Cooper's Essential Cubism, published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Tate Gallery in 1983. Still Life with Bottles and Glasses preserves the freshness and vitality of each brushstroke, the subtle contrasts of lustrous and matte surfaces, and the brilliance of the artist's whites. The mysterious complexity with which Braque invests the ordinary tabletop still life and the rich tactile quality of the painting's surface are fully intact.
[refers to Braque, Still Life with Bottles and Glasses, 1912, 1998.72.McD and Picasso, Bottle of Port and Glass, 1919, 1998.73, and Gris, Guitar and Pipe, c. 1913, 1998.219.McD.]
Excerpt from
Dorothy Kosinski, "The Cubist Challenge," in Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years , ed. Dorothy M. Kosinski (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2003), Pamphlet number 80.
Carl Wuellner, “The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund,” in Dallas Museum of Art, 100 Years , ed. Dorothy M. Kosinski (Dallas, TX: Dallas Museum of Art, 2003), Pamphlet number 15.
1998.72.McD Braque, Still Life with Bottles and Glasses
This still life embodies all of the essential characteristics of what is termed "analytical cubism," employed by Braque and Picasso between 1908 and 1912, in which a subject's internal and external surfaces, as well as different viewpoints and visual perspectives, are brought together in a single composition. The mysterious complexity with which Braque invests the ordinary tabletop still life and the rich tactile quality of the painting's surface are here beautifully preserved.
Braque, Georges (French, 1882-1963)
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