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Artist Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963)

Date1912

DimensionsOverall: 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 in.

MediumDrypoint

ClassificationPrints

Object number

1954.6

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Label TextGeorges Braque and Pablo Picasso together developed a new and highly influential language of representation known as Cubism. In this café still -life, forms are fragmented and dispersed, light and shadow are placed at will to create relief and continuity, and space, as Braque proclaimed, is ‘materialized’. Links with reality are maintained through the inclusion of legible details: a nail with its shadow, a long-stemmed clay pipe, dice, an anchor-labeled package. Words and letters serve as seemingly informative complements: JOB, a brand of French cigarette paper and French slang for a deception; HAV, the letters of the seaport Le Havre, where Braque grew up; ANCHE, a fragment, perhaps, of the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche. The result is highly ambiguous and tantalizingly elusive, a poetic “lyricism which stems entirely from the means employed,” as Braque wrote.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, European Expressionist and Cubist Works on Paper: 1900-1930, December 2, 2011-March 11, 2012 (University of Toledo Student Exhibition). Toledo Museum of Art, Looks Good on Paper: Masterworks and Favorites, Oct. 10, 2014-Jan. 11, 2015.