Inscription: Signed and dated (lower left): G Braque/ 24

the artist (to Rosenberg); [Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris; stock no. 963]; Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lugano and Lausanne (by 1926–37; sold in 1937 to Cooper); Douglas Cooper, London and Argilliers, France (1937–80; sale, Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1980, no. 72, as "Guitare, Fruits, Pipe, Cahier de Musique," to private collection); private collection, Madrid (1980–86; sold on December 12, 1986 to Kasper); [Sandra Canning Kasper, Inc., New York, 1986; sold on December 30, 1986 to Gelman]; Natasha Gelman, Mexico City and New York (1986–d. 1998; her bequest to MMA)

Paris. Paul Rosenberg. "Exposition d'oeuvres de Braque," March 8–27, 1926, no. 45 (as "Pichet et partition de musique," lent by Docteur G. F. Reber).

Frankfurt. Kunstverein. "Exhibition of the Collection of G. F. Reber," February 1927, no catalogue.

Kunsthalle Basel. "Georges Braque," April 9–May 14, 1933, no. 112 (as "Tisch mit Musikinstrumenten und Pfeife").

Edinburgh. Royal Scottish Academy. "G. Braque: An Exhibition of Paintings," August 18–September 15, 1956, no. 54 (as "Still life with Guitar and Fruit," lent from a private collection).

London. Tate Gallery. "G. Braque: An Exhibition of Paintings," September 28–November 11, 1956, no. 54.

Haus der Kunst Munich. "Georges Braque," October 18–December 15, 1963, no. 69 (as "Gitarre, Früchte, Pfeife und Noten," lent from a private collection).

Art Institute of Chicago. "Braque: The Great Years," October 7–December 3, 1972, no. 7 (as "Guitar and Fruit on a Table," lent from a private collection).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Twentieth Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," December 12, 1989–April 1, 1990, unnumbered cat. (p. 170).

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Twentieth Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection," April 19–July 15, 1990, unnumbered cat.

Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "De Matisse à Picasso: Collection Jacques et Natasha Gelman," June 18–November 1, 1994, unnumbered cat. (p. 194).

Bulletin de "l'effort moderne", no. 9 (November 1924), ill. between pp. 8 and 9.

"Les Expositions à Paris et ailleurs." Cahiers d'art 2, supplément no (1927), ill. p. 7 (installation photo of Exh. Frankfurt 1927).

Jean Cassou. "Georges Braque." Cahiers d'art 3 (1928), ill. p. 9.

Christian Zervos. "Georges Braque." Kunst und Künstler 27 (June 1929), ill. p. 387.

George Isarlov. Georges Braque. Paris, 1932, p. 24, no. 331.

Guillaume Apollinaire et al. Georges Braque. Paris, 1933, ill. p. 50.

Carl Einstein. Georges Braque. Paris, 1934, pl. LX.

Maurice Raynal in Maurice Raynal. History of Modern Painting. Vol. 3, From Picasso to Surrealism. Geneva, 1950, ill. p. 145 (color).

John Richardson. "Au Château des cubistes." L'Oeil, no. 4 (April 15, 1955), pp. 20–21, ill. (installation photo).

Douglas Cooper. G. Braque: An Exhibition of Paintings. Exh. cat., Tate Gallery, London., 1956, pp. 41–42, no. 54, pl. 22g.

John Richardson. Georges Braque. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1959, p. 21, pl. 18.

Robert Rosenblum. Cubism and Twentieth Century Art. New York, 1960, pp. 106, 311, pl. XVI.

Nicole S. Mangin. Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque. Vol. 5, Peintures 1924–1927. [Paris], 1968, p. 5, ill. (color and bw).

Edwin Mullins. Braque. London, 1968, pp. 100, 131, 211, fig. 73 (upside down).

Massimo Carrà. L'Opera completa di Braque dalla scomposizione cubista al recupero dell'oggetto 1908–1929. Milan, 1971, p. 96, no. 208, ill.

Douglas Cooper. Braque: The Great Years. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1972, pp. 21, 58–59, no. 7, fig. 36.

Nadine Pouillon with Isabelle Monod Fontaine. Braque:Œuvres de Georges Braque (1882–1963). Exh. cat., Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris, 1982, p. 88, under no. 22, fig. 3.

Dorothy M. Kosinski. Douglas Cooper and the Masters of Cubism. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel. Basel, 1987, pp. 22, 44 n. 22, ill. p. 17 (installation photo).

John Golding in Twentieth Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 37.

William S. Lieberman in Twentieth Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, p. 14.

Sabine Rewald in Twentieth Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Ed. William S Lieberman. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1989, pp. 170–72, 295, ill. (color and bw).

Dorothy M. Kosinski. Picasso, Braque, Gris, Léger: Douglas Cooper Collecting Cubism. Exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, 1990, pp. 25, 54 n. 75, fig. 24.

Dorothy Kosinski. "G. F. Reber: Collector of Cubism." Burlington Magazine 133 (August 1991), pp. 522, 529.

Judith H. Dobrzynski. "20th Century Art Treasures Are Left to Met." New York Times (May 6, 1998), p. B6, ill.

Peter Kropmanns and Uwe Fleckner. "Von Kontinentaler Bedeuteung: Gottlieb Friedrich Reber und Seine Sammlungen." Die Moderne und Ihre Sammler: Französische Kunst in Deutschem Privatbesitz vom Kaiserreich zur Weimarer Republik. Ed. Andrea Pophanken and Felix Billeter. Berlin, 2001, p. 394, no. 17.