Nude Woman with Basket of Fruit

1926

Georges Braque

Painter, French, 1882 - 1963

A bare-chested woman with brown skin holding a basket of fruit nearly fills this vertical painting. The woman’s body faces us but she turns her squat face slightly to our left. Her eyes, nose, ears, and parted lips are outlined with sand-brown and black. Her hair is painted with streaky bands of dark brown and black. She has broad, muscular shoulders, a wide neck, and her breasts droop over a wide stomach with a sagging six pack. One thick arm rests in her lap, and the other braces a square basket of yellow and green fruits on her other thigh. That foot is propped up, presumably on an unseen rung of her chair, and the other foot is flat on the floor. Her lap and legs are covered with tan-colored cloths mottled with mossy green and another in steel gray, all outlined in black. The background is laid in with blocks of earth brown, golden tan, black, gray, and white. The artist signed and dated the lower left corner in white paint, “G. Braque 26.”
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 162 x 74.3 cm (63 3/4 x 29 1/4 in.)
    framed: 193.7 x 105.4 x 9.5 cm (76 1/4 x 41 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.10.88

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Rosenberg and Co., London, New York and Paris); sold 1930 to Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1943

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, 1943-1952 (extended loan), unnumbered catalogue, repro. p. 11

1952

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1952, no. 13, repro.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

1978

  • Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 31, repro.

Bibliography

1943

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1943:, 11, repro.

1952

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1952 (2nd ed., 1960; rev. ed., 1965): 13, repro.

1960

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960 (2nd ed.): 14, repro.

1965

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 13, repro.

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 19.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 12, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 44, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 596, no. 925, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 67, repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: G Braque / 26

Wikidata ID

Q20192652

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