Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale

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Property from an Esteemed Family Collection

GEORGES BRAQUE | MARGUERITES SUR UNE CAISSE

Auction Closed

October 29, 01:50 AM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Esteemed Family Collection

GEORGES BRAQUE

1882 - 1963

MARGUERITES SUR UNE CAISSE 


Signed G Braque (lower right)

Oil on canvas

32 by 23⅝ in.

81.3 by 60 cm

Painted in 1946.

Please note this lot is subject to an irrevocable bid.

Mrs. Leo Glass, New York (and sold: Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1964, lot 5)

Acquired at the above sale and thence by descent

Cahiers d'Art, Paris, 1947, illustrated p. 32 (titled Le Pot de fleurs)

Jean Grenier, Braque. Peintures 1909-1947, Paris, 1948, illustrated in color pl. XII

John Russell, G. Braque, London, 1959, illustrated pl. 64 (titled Still Life)

Galerie Maeght, ed., Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Georges Braque. Peintures 1942-1947, Paris, 1960, no. 107, illustrated in color facing no. 112

Stanislas Fumet, Georges Braque, Paris, 1965, illustrated in color p. 203 (with incorrect dimensions)

Raymond Cogniat, Braque, New York, 1970, illustrated in color (with incorrect dimensions)