Still Life with Peaches, Pears and Grapes
Georges Braque
(French, 1882–1963)
1921
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions31.4 x 65.4 cm (12 3/8 x 25 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by contribution
Accession numberRES.32.21
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In this later experiment with collage-like effects achieved through paint alone, Braque used black outlines to suggest volume and shadow in the spherical forms of peaches and grapes. But he layered these with other elements—the semi-transparent pears, the combed wood-grain tabletop—that remain insistently flat.
InscriptionsLower left: G Braque/ 21Provenance1927, Marcel Noréro, Paris; February 14, 1927, Noréro sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, lot 38, sold for 28,600 fr. to Baron Shigetaro Fukushima (b. 1895 - d. 1960), Paris; 1931, sold by Fukushima to Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York; 1932, sold by Pierre Matisse Gallery to the MFA. (Accession Date: February 4, 1932)
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