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This exhibition is the first in-depth study of still life in Georges Braque’s (1882–1963) career framed within the historical and political context of 1928 to 1945. Approximately 40 paintings chart Braque’s work in this genre from small, intimate interior scenes of the late 1920s, to vibrant, large-scale canvases of the 1930s, to darker and more personal interpretations of daily life in the 1940s. Duncan Phillips played a pioneering role in introducing this important European modernist to American audiences, acquiring 11 works by the artist and presenting Braque’s first U.S. retrospective in 1939.
The exhibition is co-organized by The Phillips Collection and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, part of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.