This work and Fruit Dish and Glass (1912, MMA 2016.237.33, The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection) are among Braque’s first papiers collés. He had already drawn most of the still-life motifs in charcoal. Holes in the collage elements indicate that Braque pinned on the pieces of mass-produced, cheap wallpaper, experimenting with their placement before pasting them onto the fine-art paper sheet. He then drew on top of the wallpaper to integrate it into the composition and to blur the distinction between real and fake, hand drawn and mechanically printed. Braque’s inspiration for this woman, with her tilted head, long curls, and kewpie-doll lips, probably came from newspaper and poster advertisements.
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Inscription: Signed [at a later date] (verso, lower left, in pencil): G Braque
Marking: watermark: INGRES FRANCE with countermark A L in oval belt frame with trefoil detail
[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris; inv. no. 1134; sequestered Galerie Kahnweiler stock, December 12, 1914–23; fourth Galerie Kahnweiler sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 8, 1923, no. 48, sold for Fr 280, to an unidentified bidder along with nine other works]; [Henriette Gomès, Paris]; [Galerie Berggruen et Cie (Heinz Berggruen), Paris]; Jean-Claude Bellier, Paris (in 1967); Norman Granz, London (until 1968; his sale, Sotheby & Co., London, April 23, 1968, no. 1, as "Papier collé," sold to Grosser); A. Grosser (from 1968); Republic National Bank of New York (Edmond Safra), probably Geneva (in 1982); (sale, Sotheby’s, London, June 28, 1989, no. 328); private collection (until 2001; sold in July 2001 to Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (2001–13; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York); The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (2013–16; gift to MMA)
Paris. Jean-Claude Bellier. "Autour du Cubisme," May 3–June 30, 1967, no. 2.
Paris. Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. "Georges Braque: Les papiers collés," June 17–September 27, 1982, no. 10 (lent by a private collection, Geneva).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Braque: The Papiers Collés," October 31, 1982–January 16, 1983, no. 7 (lent by a private collection, Geneva).
New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. "Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in Twentieth Century Art," March 29–May 22, 1988.
New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism," September 24, 1989–January 16, 1990, unnumbered cat. (pp. 29, 245; as [early September] 1912, lent by a private collection).
New York. Mitchell-Innes & Nash. "Georges Braque," February 16–March 27, 1999, no. 2 (as 1912–13).
Barcelona. Fundació Joan Miró. "Mestres del collage: de Picasso à Rauschenberg," November 25, 2005–February 26, 2006, unnumbered cat. (p. 51; lent by a private collection).
New York. PaceWildenstein. "Picasso, Braque and Early Film in Cubism," April 20–June 23, 2007, unnumbered cat. (p. 114; as early September 1912, lent by a private collection).
New York. Acquavella Galleries. "Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism," October 12–November 30, 2011, no. 16 (as 1912–13; lent by a private collection).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection," October 20, 2014–February 16, 2015, no. 10.
Autour du Cubisme. Exh. cat., Jean-Claude Bellier. Paris, 1967, unpaginated, no. 2, ill.
Ulrich Weisner et al. Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Bielefeld, 1979, p. 271, pl. 139.
Nicole Worms de Romilly and Jean Laude. [Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque]. Vol. [1], Le Cubisme, fin 1907–1914. [Paris], 1982, p. 279, no. 163B, ill. p. 184, as "Tête/Head," 1912–13, private collection, USA.
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. 48, ill. p. 51, fig. 1, list it in a private collection.
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine with E. A. Carmean Jr. Braque: The Papiers Collés. Exh. cat., Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 94, 96, no. 7, ill. (French ed., pp. 80, 84, no. 10, ill. p. 85 [color]).
William Rubin, ed. Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1989, p. 29, ill., and ill. p. 245 (color) (German ed., 1990, p. 23, ill., and fig. 271; French ed., 1990, and Spanish ed., 1991, p. 23, ill., and ill. p. 239), dates it early September 1912 and lists it in a private collection.
Georges Braque. Exh. cat., Mitchell-Innes & Nash. New York, 1999, unpaginated, no. 2, ill.
Mestres del collage: De Picasso a Rauschenberg. Exh. cat., Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, 2005, p. 282, ill. p. 51 (color).
Bernice B. Rose, ed. Picasso, Braque, and Early Film in Cubism. Exh. cat., PaceWildenstein. New York, 2007, p. 187, ill. p. 114.
Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies. (video recording). Produced by Martin Scorsese and Robert Greenhut, Produced and directed by Arne Glimcher. New York: Arthouse Films, 2010, ill. (color).
Dieter Buchhart inGeorges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 2011, p. 59.
Georges Braque: Pioneer of Modernism. Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries. New York, 2011, p. 100, colorpl. 16.
"Objects Promised to the Museum during the Year 2012–2013." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, One Hundred Forty-third Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013 (2013), p. 45, as early September 1912.
Lewis Kachur inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, p. 83.
Anne Umland inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, pp. 99–100, no. 10, ill. p. 101 (color).
Anna Jozefacka and Luise Mahler inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, p. 251.
Written on the verso (lower-right corner, in pencil): No 1134 [Galerie Kahnweiler inv. no.]; (vertically along left edge, in pencil): [framing instructions]
Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
1956
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