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[[underscore]] Collection [[/underscore]]: George Braque

[[underscore]] Exhibited [[/underscore]]: Both panels were exhibited:

"Georges Braque", retrospective exhibition held jointly by the Arts Club of Chicago, Nov.7-27, 1939 (o. 7 and 8 of the catalogue) and also at the  San Francisco Museum of Art.

Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, Calif., 1949, No. 614 and 615.

The panel of Odysseus was also exhibited in: "Georges Braque", Kunsthalle, Basel, Apr. 9-n May 14,1935 No. 177 and reproduced. 

"Georges Braque", Palais des Beaux Arts, 1936, Bruxelles. No. 69.

[[underscore]] Bibliography [[/underscore]]: The panel of Odysseus was reproduced as frontispiece in Carl Einstein,  "Braque", London and New York, 1934.

Excerpts from "Georgres Braque", Henry R. Hope, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1949:

Page 119- "Toward the end of the year 1930, Braque began to paint in a manner quite unlike anything he had done before. The long sweeping curves...now being to dominate the design at the expense of other details..."

Page 122-125- "Noe-Classicism. In 1930-31 Braque again became interested in Greek art and made a number of sketches of nymphs and heros. These were drawn in a thin sensuousline that imitates the late archaic style. Often he introduced curious fantasies: figures with crescent heads or snowshoe feet and inscriptions in Greek letters. His source appears to have been Greek vase painting, and possibly Etruscan mirrors...."

Page 123 - "He also had consulted the illustrations in books on ancient art, and must have been familiar with the line engravings in eighteenth century books particularly those dealing with engraved stones (abraxas).

Braque also did a few large scale canvases in the neo-classical style, especially a group of wall panels in 1932 for the Paris apartment of Monsieur Holsschuch.