Georges Braque
dal 17/9/2013 al 5/1/2014
Segnalato da
17/9/2013
Georges Braque
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
A retrospective. From Fauvism to his last works, culminating in the dazzling series of large studios and birds. The exhibition's chronological design insists on the highlights of his career, such as cubism, the canephors of the twenties, or the last landscapes, which so appealed to Nicolas de Stael.
curator: Brigitte Leal, general curator, deputy director at the MNAM – Centre Pompidou
An exhibition organised by the Réunion des musées
nationaux – Grand Palais in partnership with the
Centre Pompidou.
Georges Braque (1882-1963) is one of the twentieth century's major artists. He was a painter,
engraver and sculptor, but first, as the founder of cubism and the inventor of pasted papers, one of the
leading figures in the avant-garde of the early twentieth century before focusing definitively on
methodical, serial exploration of still life and landscape painting, which made him the French painter
par excellence, the heir to Corot and Chardin and the depository of the classical tradition as well as
the precursor of post-war abstraction.
The Grand Palais is hosting an ambitious retrospective of his oeuvre. It presents all the periods in his
art from Fauvism to his last works, culminating in the dazzling series of large studios and birds. The
exhibition's chronological design insists on the highlights of his career, such as cubism, the canephors
of the twenties, or the last landscapes, which so appealed to Nicolas de Staël. Thanks to the support
of the Musée national d’art moderne and major international collections, it gathers the artist's key
works and series exploring various themes – landscapes, gueridons, canephors and the complete
cycle of the nine Studios (1949-1956) shown for the first time in a single exhibition – which amplify and
sum up his experimental work.
Five display cases filled with often unpublished works, documents and photographs (by Man Ray and
Cartier-Bresson among others) explore other perspectives: his collaboration with Pablo Picasso in
cubism; the resonance between his art and music and his closeness to Erik Satie; and his affinity with
poets such as Pierre Reverdy, Francis Ponge and René Char and important intellectual figures of his
time such as Carl Einstein or Jean Paulhan.
No full retrospective of Georges Braque's oeuvre has been presented in Paris since the major show at
the Orangerie des Tuileries in 1973-1974.
Exhibition design: Didier Blin
To be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
from 16 February to 11 May 2014
Image: Large Nude, winter 1907 - June 1908, oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm. Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art
moderne, dation Alex Maguy-Glass, 2002 © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI, Dist. Rmn / Georges Meguerditchian © Adagp,
Paris 2013
Press contact:
Elodie Vincent 01 40134761 elodie.vincent@rmngp.fr
Florence Le Moing 01 40134762 florence.lemoing@rmngp.fr
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