The Chariot

Inscription: Signed (lower right): G-B

Marking: Stamped (lower right side): CIRE/C VALSUANI [underlined] / PERDUE [all enclosed in a box]; incised: 1/6

[Galerie Maeght, Paris, until 1955; sold on November 22, 1955, for $1,610, to Knoedler]; [M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York, 1955–56; stock no. A6181; sold on June 7, 1956, to de Groot]; Adelaide Milton de Groot, New York (1956–d. 1967; her bequest to MMA)

New York. Knoedler Galleries. "Braque Bronzes," May 8–June 29, 1956, no. 1 (as "Le Char").

Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "Masterpieces from the Adelaide Milton de Groot Collection," December 2, 1958–March 1, 1959, no. 2 (as "Le Char," 1943 [sic]).

Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art. "Georges Braque Retrospective," June 6–July 19, 1998, no. 108.

Kagoshima City Museum of Art. "Georges Braque Retrospective," July 24–August 30, 1998, no. 108.

Tokyo. Bunkamura Museum of Art. "Georges Braque Retrospective," September 12–October 25, 1998, no. 108.

Mie Prefectural Art Museum. "Georges Braque Retrospective," November 3–December 13, 1998, no. 108.

Henry R. Hope. Georges Braque. Exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, 1949, ill. p. 135 (plaster cast).

Stanislas Fumet. Sculptures de Braque. Paris, 1951, no. 9, ill. (plaster cast).

D. A. "About Art and Artists: Bronzes by Braque at Knoedler Gallery." New York Times (May 11, 1956), p. 40.

Carlyle Burrows. "Braque Fanciful in Bronze Art." New York Herald Tribune (May 13, 1956), p. E37.

B. C. "The Bronze Age of Braque." Art News 55 (May 1956), ill. p. 29.

John Russell. G. Braque. London, 1959, p. 126, pl. 72 (plaster cast), calls the plaster cast "The Chariot of the Sun" and dates it 1953–54; reproduces the cast in the collection of Gustav Zumsteg, Zurich.

Christian Zervos. Georges Braque: Nouvelles sculptures et plaques gravées. Paris, 1960, pl. XVIII (painted plaster copy, 1939).

Douglas Cooper. Georges Braque. Exh. cat., Haus der Kunst. Munich, 1963, p. 82, no. 273 (bronze cast in the collection of Aimé Maeght), calls it "Io oder Der Wagen (Le Char)".

John Richardson, ed. Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute. The Sculpture. Exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co., Inc. New York, 1964, no. 7 (bronze cast in the collection of M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York), calls it "io".