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Still Life with Pink Fish

1937

Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963)

61.39

On display in H200

oil paintcanvaspainting

Artwork Details

ArtistCreation Date
1937
Creation Location
France
Materials
oil on canvas
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

17 x 24 in. 25-1/4 x 32-1/4 in. (framed)

Mark Description

Singed in paint, lower right: G. Braque

Accession Number
61.39
Credit Line

Bequest of Mrs. James W. Fesler

Copyright
© Georges Braque / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945

Color Palette

(Rosenberg and Helft, London, England) in 1938.{1} probably directly to (Theodore Schempp, New York, New York); from Schempp to Caroline Marmon Fesler [1878-1960], Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1944;{2} bequest to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1961. {1} Label on original frame indicates that Rosenberg and Helft, London, owned the painting when it was exhibited at the Arts Club of Chicago in 1938 [the annotation to the label in pencils says “1939”. (See also the catalogue of this exhibition at the Arts Club, Georges Braque: Retrospective Exhibition, 7 -27 November 1939, catalogue no. 60.) Between the wars Paul Rosenberg maintained a branch of his Paris gallery in London in partnership with his brother-in-law Jacques Helft. {2} Receipt for purchase dated 26 April 1944 in IMA Historical File (61.39).



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