In a witty version of a “mirror image,” Braque took the oval backing board off a looking glass, covered it with white gesso, and turned the vertical format to a horizontal one to emphasize the tabletop effect. The two pieces of differently grained faux bois stand for the respective wood planes of wall and table, reinforcing oscillating viewpoints, while the latter displays the daily news: two actual pages and hand-drawn letters that refer to the newspaper Le Journal. He placed an ad for Motobloc automobiles (suggesting the male “drive”) next to one publicizing L’amour obligatoire (Mandatory love), a handbook on women’s “proper” sexual comportment, and conjoined them with a wineglass amusingly split into positive and negative forms.
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[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris; photo no. 1180]; Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber, Lausanne (until ca. 1959; ca.1959 [possibly a gift] to Eichmann); Dr. Ingeborg Eichmann (later Dr. Ingeborg Pudelko Eichmann), Zürich and elsewhere (1959–d. 1980); her heirs (1980–99; sold in September 1999 to Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (1999–2013; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust); The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (2013–16; gift to MMA)
Paris. Galerie Maeght. "Georges Braque: Papiers collés, 1912–14," May 1963, no. 23 (as "Papier collé et fusain," lent by Madame Pudelko Eichmann).
Kunsthalle Bielefeld. "Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris," March 11–April 29, 1979, no. 148 (as "Stilleben," 1913, lent by Kunsthaus Zürich, on loan from a private collection).
Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Shock of the News," September 23, 2012–January 27, 2013, no. 3 (dated late 1913 or 1914, 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. 16.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition," October 17, 2022–January 22, 2023, unnumbered cat. (pl. 111).
Tristan Tzara. "Le papier collé ou le proverbe en peinture." Cahiers d'art 6 (1931), ill. p. 65, as "Nature morte," 1913.
George Isarlov. Georges Braque. Paris, 1932, p. 19, no. 191, as "Bouteille".
Georges Braque. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Basel. Basel, 1933, p. 18, no. 72, ill. n.p.
André Salmon. "Georges Braque." Cahiers d'Art 8 (1933), ill. p. 30, as 1913.
Herta Wescher. "Les collages cubistes." Art d'Aujourd'hui 4, nos. 3–4 (May 1953), ill. p. 34, as "Bouteille et journal".
Frank Elgar. "Une conquête du Cubisme: Le papier collé." XXe Siècle no. 6 (January 1956), ill. p. 10, as "Papier collé," 1913.
John Richardson. Georges Braque. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1959, pp. 10, 31, pl. 10b, as "Still-life with Newspaper, Glass, and Bottle," 1913, in the collection of the Kunsthaus Zürich, on loan from Dr. Ingeborg Eichmann-Pudelko.
Galerie Maeght. Georges Braque: Papiers collés, 1912–1914. Paris, 1963, unpaginated (checklist), no. 23, ill.
Ulrich Weisner et al. Zeichnungen und Collagen des Kubismus: Picasso, Braque, Gris. Exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Bielefeld, 1979, pp. 263, 271, colorpl. 148.
Nicole Worms de Romilly and Jean Laude. [Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque]. Vol. [1], Le Cubisme, fin 1907–1914. [Paris], 1982, pp. 237, 287, no. 225, ill. p. 236, as "Bouteille, verre et journal MOTO," in the collection of Dr. Ingeborg Eichmann-Pudelko on deposit at the Kunsthaus Zürich.
Judith Brodie. Shock of the News. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2012, pp. 6, 130 n. 19, colorpl. 3.
"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.
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. 105, 309 n. 45, no. 16, ill. p. 103 (color).
Rebecca Rabinow inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, p. 163.
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, pp. 255–56, fig. 16.
Jason Farago. "Close Read: An Art Revolution, Made with Scissors and Glue." nytimes.com. January 29, 2021, ill. (color).
Emily Braun in Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling. Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2022, pp. 25–26, 211, 243, 263 nn. 8, 10, colorpl. 111.
Written on the verso (bottom of vertical stretcher crossbar, in pink crayon): 9 [encircled]
Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris)
1912, published 1950
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