Still Life (Glass and Cigarette Pack)
Georges Braque French
Not on view
This collage contains a rare autobiographical reference by Braque, who was a keen cyclist: the fragment of an ad for the bimonthy magazine Le Cyclotouriste. The work likely dates from around June 28, 1914, when the artist embarked on a bicycle trip from Sens to Sorgues (a distance of some 370 miles). He framed his own oval picture with a bespoke mat crafted from trompe l’oeil linen wallpaper so that a piece of it crosses the threshold. The rapidly scripted letters that appear literally out and ahead of the rest of the papers likely express the “[vit]esse,” or speed, with which he aimed to complete his cycling journey.
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