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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1960.246
People
Georges Braque, French (Argenteuil, France 1882 - 1963 Paris, France)
Title
The Mandolin
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1939-c. 1940
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/227645

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
88.9 x 106.7 cm (35 x 42 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: G. Braque

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Sam Salz, New York, New York], sold; to Joseph Pulitzer Jr., St. Louis, Missouri, 1949, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1960.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Accession Year
1960
Object Number
1960.246
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Charles Scott Chetham, Modern Painting, Drawing & Sculpture: Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1957), p. 24, fig. 26, ill. (plate section, b/w)
  • Caroline A. Jones, Modern Art at Harvard: The Formation of the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Collections of the Harvard University Art Museums (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press, 1985). With an essay by John Coolidge and a preface by John M. Rosenfield. To accompany the inaugural exhibition at the Sackler Museum, Oct 21 1985 - Jan 5 1986, reproduced in color, fig. 79, p. 85
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 230, p. 200, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Modern Art at Harvard, Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 07/31/1999 - 09/26/1999; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 10/09/1999 - 11/14/1999; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya, 12/02/1999 - 12/27/1999; Oita City Museum, Oita, 01/06/2000 - 02/06/2000; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Ibaraki, 02/11/2000 - 03/26/2000

Verification Level

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