Past Exhibition

Braque

Two pieces of black paper and a third sheet with imitation wood grain paper are layered over a drawing of a guitar and other sheets of paper in this vertical collage. The guitar’s curved body and the lower part of the strings are drawn in black on tan paper, while the sound hole and rest of the strings are drawn with white lines on a rectangular piece of black paper that lies on top. Straight and angled lines protrude from the sides and top of the guitar with light hatching to suggest shading. A sheet of paper is drawn over the bottom of the guitar with hand lettering that reads, “Aria de Bach.” Another black rectangle overlaps the paper on the left and has a long, white, vertical line broken by a C-shape. The paper patterned with wood grain lies on top of the black paper and resembles a long triangle with its point cut off. The artist signed the lower right, “G Braque.”
Georges Braque, Aria de Bach, 1913, collage of black paper and imitation wood-grain paper with charcoal and white chalk on white paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1982.55.2

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    East Building, Ground Floor, Northeast, Pod I (2,000 sq. ft.)
Two pieces of black paper and a third sheet with imitation wood grain paper are layered over a drawing of a guitar and other sheets of paper in this vertical collage. The guitar’s curved body and the lower part of the strings are drawn in black on tan paper, while the sound hole and rest of the strings are drawn with white lines on a rectangular piece of black paper that lies on top. Straight and angled lines protrude from the sides and top of the guitar with light hatching to suggest shading. A sheet of paper is drawn over the bottom of the guitar with hand lettering that reads, “Aria de Bach.” Another black rectangle overlaps the paper on the left and has a long, white, vertical line broken by a C-shape. The paper patterned with wood grain lies on top of the black paper and resembles a long triangle with its point cut off. The artist signed the lower right, “G Braque.”
Georges Braque, Aria de Bach, 1913, collage of black paper and imitation wood-grain paper with charcoal and white chalk on white paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1982.55.2

Overview: 30 works celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georges Braque, the originator of modern collage. The exhibition and its catalogue were a joint project of the National Gallery and the Musée national d'art moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where 27 of the collages had been shown the previous summer.

Organization: Dominique Bozo and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine of the Centre Georges Pompidou organized the exhibition, with E.A. Carmean Jr. at the National Gallery.

Attendance: 90,637

Catalog: Braque: The Papiers Collés, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine with E.A. Carmean Jr. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982.

Other Venues:

  • Centre Georges Pompidou

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