The Table
Georges Braque, French, 1882 - 1963
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1918Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
52 5/16 x 29 3/4 inches (132.9 x 75.6 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
European Painting
1950-134-29bCredit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1918Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
52 5/16 x 29 3/4 inches (132.9 x 75.6 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 167, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor
Accession Number:1950-134-29bCredit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Label:
Painted shortly after his recovery from a head wound suffered in World War I, The Table suggests a return to Braque's early training with his father, a painter-decorator who taught him how to simulate the appearance of wood grain and marble. The sensuous textures and decorative surfaces-the wood patterns, the polka dots, and the letters situating us in a "[ca]fé-bar"-enliven the picture with the distinct air of pleasure and poetry characteristic of Braque's Synthetic Cubist paintings. The Table initiated a decade-long series of paintings in which still-life elements are arranged on the tipped-up surface of a wooden pedestal table.
Painted shortly after his recovery from a head wound suffered in World War I, The Table suggests a return to Braque's early training with his father, a painter-decorator who taught him how to simulate the appearance of wood grain and marble. The sensuous textures and decorative surfaces-the wood patterns, the polka dots, and the letters situating us in a "[ca]fé-bar"-enliven the picture with the distinct air of pleasure and poetry characteristic of Braque's Synthetic Cubist paintings. The Table initiated a decade-long series of paintings in which still-life elements are arranged on the tipped-up surface of a wooden pedestal table.
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