Still Life (Braque, 1911)

Still Life
French: Nature morte
Artist	Georges Braque
Year	1911
Medium	oil paint on canvas
Movement	Cubism
Subject	still life (a glass and a guitar)
Dimensions	33 cm × 41 cm (13 in × 16 in)[1]
Location	Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg
Accession	1923

Still Life, also referred to as Glass and Guitar (French: Verre à pied et guitare), is a 1911 oil painting by the French artist Georges Braque, now in the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (inventory number 55.974.0.720). It was the first cubist painting ever bought by a public collection of France.^[2]

Still Life had belonged to Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler until 1921, when his collection was confiscated by the French government, and sold. The architect and designer Pierre Chareau bought the painting and sold it two years later to the Strasbourg museum.^[3]

References

1. "Nature morte". navigart.fr/mamcs. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
2. Laps, Thierry (February 2008). Les collections du musée d'art moderne et contemporain de la ville de Strasbourg. Strasbourg: Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 103. ISBN 978-2-901833-82-6.
3. Knoery, Frank (October 2009). Hans Haug, homme de musées. Strasbourg: Éditions des musées de la ville de Strasbourg. p. 136. ISBN 978-2-35125-071-6.