Daniel H. Kahnweiler

German, 1884 - 1979

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Paul Klee, Baroque Centaur (Barocker Kentaur), 1939, gouache on laid paper, Gift of Benjamin and Lillian Hertzberg, 2004.140.11

Baroque Centaur (Barocker Kentaur)

Paul Klee · 1939 · gouache on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2004.140.11

André Derain, Still Life, 1913, oil on canvas, Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman, 1972.9.10

Still Life

André Derain · 1913 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1972.9.10

Rounded and angular shapes are painted with areas of mottled white, tan, gray, and brown in this abstracted, oval still-life painting. The shapes would be difficult to interpret without the painting's title, which is "A Glass on a Table." A white shape with a rounded bowl, an angled stem, and flaring foot could be the glass. Other objects are layered behind it, but it is hard to tell if we look down onto a table or into a cabinet, or both. A white rectangle to our left could be a folded newspaper.
Pablo Picasso, A Glass on a Table, 1913, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Ingrid and Morton Leeds), 2014.136.164

A Glass on a Table

Pablo Picasso · 1913 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.164

We look across a sandy colored beach or walkway that stretches away from us to our right and then turns ninety degrees to our left in the distance, to enclose a teal-green body of water filled with rows of small rowboats in this nearly square, stylized landscape painting. The scene is loosely painted with vibrant colors, in jewel-toned topaz and royal blue, emerald and mint green, pale orchid purple, golden yellow, cream white, and crimson red. The boats grouped along the beach close to us are lined up in a row along the beach to our right, punctuated by a few vertical masts. The beach across from us in the distance is lined with a cotton candy-pink, pale lavender-purple, sage-green, and pumpkin-orange warehouses in front of a line of cobalt-blue mountains along the horizon, which comes nearly to the top edge of the canvas. The sky is pastel purple, green, yellow, and peach above. The artist signed the work in dark paint in the lower right corner: “Braque.”
Georges Braque, The Port of La Ciotat, 1907, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, 1998.74.6

The Port of La Ciotat

Georges Braque · 1907 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1998.74.6

André Derain, The Old Bridge, 1910, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.130

The Old Bridge

André Derain · 1910 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.130

A patchwork of earth-toned rectangles, cubes, and prism-like shapes surrounded by pools of cool aquamarine and silvery gray fill this square, nearly abstract painting. Brushstrokes, which are mostly horizontal, and dashes are visible throughout. A curving, pointed form at the lower center could be a boat with a tall, fawn-brown mast. It is surrounded by forms suggestive of rocks, other boats, or structures against a watery horizon. Most of the shapes around the boat are leather brown, tan, apricot orange, muted violet, or steel gray. Another pole, also suggestive of a mast, angles up from near the lower left corner, about a third of the way into the composition. Many of the shapes are outlined with charcoal-gray lines. Horizontal and blended strokes in pewter gray and icy blue at the upper corners suggest the sky.
Georges Braque, Harbor, 1909, oil on canvas, Gift of Victoria Nebeker Coberly in memory of her son, John W. Mudd, 1992.3.1

Harbor

Georges Braque · 1909 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1992.3.1

Maurice de Vlaminck, Vase of Flowers, 1910 or before, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.228

Vase of Flowers

Maurice de Vlaminck · 1910 or before · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.228

André Derain, Still Life, 1913, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.131

Still Life

André Derain · 1913 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.131

Bibliography

1933

  • Cogniat, Raymond. "Portraits de marchands: Henri Kahnweiler et les débuts de cubisme." Beaux-Arts 72, n.s. 32 (August 11, 1933):5

1958

  • Watt, Alexander. "Art Dealers of Paris II: Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler." The Studio 156 (July 1958):6-13

1961

  • Kahnweiler, Daniel H. Mes Galeries et mes peintres. Paris, 1961.

1962

  • Sardi, Marie-Andrée de. "Kahnweiler, le marchand des cubistes." Jardin des Arts 96 (November 1962):20-31

1966

  • Spies, Werner, ed. Pour Kahnweiler. London, 1966.

1988

  • Assouline, Pierre. L'homme de l'art: D.H. Kahnweiler 1884-1979. Paris, 1988.

1996

  • Turner, Jane, ed. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 17:725-726.