Still Life with Fish

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Still Life with Fish

Artist Georges Braque French, 1882 - 1963

Date1941

DimensionsPainting: 23 5/8 × 28 3/4 in. (60 × 73 cm)
Frame: 34 1/4 × 39 1/2 × 3 in. (87 × 100.3 × 7.6 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1947.60

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Director’s Conference Room

Collections

Paintings

Published References"Still Life with Fish Purchased by The Toledo Museum of Art," Art News, vol. 49, December 1950, pp. 28-29, repr. (col.).

Mangin, N., ed., Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Georges Braque: peinture 1936-1941, Paris, 1961, no. 96, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 29, pl. 301.

Charrière, Edmond, Collection René et Madeleine Junod, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1993, p. 10, repr.

Butlet, Karen K., Maurer, Renee; Fleckner, Uwe; Hughes, Gordon; Favero, Patricia, Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2012, p.229, repr.

Exhibition HistoryDenver Art Museum, Ten by Ten, (10 directions by 10 artist), 1954, cat. no. 4, repr.

Munich, Haus der Kunst, Georges Braque, 1963, no. 105, fig. 97.

New York, Braque: An American Tribute, 1964, no. 8, repr.

Knoedler Gallery, New York, N.Y. 1964.

Portland Art Museum, 75 Masterworks, Dec. 12, 1967-Jan. 21, 1968, no. 30, repr. (b&w).

St. Louis, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, Jan. 25 - April 21, 2013; Washington D.C., The Phillips Collection, June 8 - Sept. 1, 2013, Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928/1945, pl. 31 (col.), p. 229.

Label TextGeorges Braque collaborated closely with Pablo Picasso in working out an approach to painting that would result in Cubism. Whereas Picasso would go on to develop a spectacular series of personal styles, Braque continued to increase his mastery of Cubism’s vocabulary of form, freely superimposing and combining different views of the same object. This painting is one of Braque’s “kitchen still lifes” painted during World War II, which Braque spent in occupied Paris. Its rich combinations of texture and ornament are rendered with a perfect balance of harmony between color and design.