Georges Braque
Kitchen Table with Grill1943-1944

Not on view

Vertical oil painting still life with kitchen objects — a pitcher, skillet, fish, and cloth — arranged in loose, gestural brushwork in deep browns, blacks, and brick red

Artist or Maker: Georges Braque
France, 1882-1963
Title: Kitchen Table with Grill
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1943-1944
Medium: Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions: 51 3/16 × 28 15/16 in. (130 × 73.5 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.16
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: In cofounding Cubism with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque sought new ways to represent three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface. Glass, Bottle, and Playing Card (to the right), is an example of the analytic style of Cubism. Here, Braque disassembles his subject into planes and lines, highlighting the flatness of the canvas.

Braque later reintegrated color and volume into his still lifes, which featured objects that evoked a sense of touch, such as musical instruments and playing cards. Concert (to the left) underscores this tactility through Braque’s use of trompe l’oeil, or an optical illusion of three- dimensionality. Painted imitations of marble, wood, and wallpaper can be seen behind the table, which slopes for- ward, disrupting traditional perspective. Braque emphasized tactility in several ways, such as incorporating strips of paper in a technique called papier collé and mixing sand with gesso and paint, as seen in Kitchen Table with Grill (1943–44) on the adjacent wall.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist (1882-1963); [Aimé Maeght Paris by 1947]; sold in 1954 to Gustav Zumsteg (1915-2005), Zurich; [sold at Christie’s London on June 26, 1995, lot 45]; [to Galerie Art Focus, Zurich and Galerie Beyeler, Basel]; sold in 1997 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
Worms de Romilly, Nicole, and Jean Laude. Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque. Edited by Nicole S. Mangin. Paris: Galerie Maeght, 1960. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, no. 75, illustrated.
Copyright: © Georges Braque / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Georges Braque
Kitchen Table with Grill1943-1944

Not on view

Artist or Maker: Georges Braque
France, 1882-1963
Title: Kitchen Table with Grill
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1943-1944
Medium: Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions: 51 3/16 × 28 15/16 in. (130 × 73.5 cm)
Credit Line: Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof
Accession Number: M.2005.70.16
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Modern Art
Curatorial Notes: In cofounding Cubism with Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque sought new ways to represent three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface. Glass, Bottle, and Playing Card (to the right), is an example of the analytic style of Cubism. Here, Braque disassembles his subject into planes and lines, highlighting the flatness of the canvas.

Braque later reintegrated color and volume into his still lifes, which featured objects that evoked a sense of touch, such as musical instruments and playing cards. Concert (to the left) underscores this tactility through Braque’s use of trompe l’oeil, or an optical illusion of three- dimensionality. Painted imitations of marble, wood, and wallpaper can be seen behind the table, which slopes for- ward, disrupting traditional perspective. Braque emphasized tactility in several ways, such as incorporating strips of paper in a technique called papier collé and mixing sand with gesso and paint, as seen in Kitchen Table with Grill (1943–44) on the adjacent wall.

Wall label, 2021.
Provenance: The artist (1882-1963); [Aimé Maeght Paris by 1947]; sold in 1954 to Gustav Zumsteg (1915-2005), Zurich; [sold at Christie’s London on June 26, 1995, lot 45]; [to Galerie Art Focus, Zurich and Galerie Beyeler, Basel]; sold in 1997 to Janice and Henri Lazarof, Los Angeles; given in 2005 to LACMA.
Selected Bibliography: Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.
Worms de Romilly, Nicole, and Jean Laude. Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque. Edited by Nicole S. Mangin. Paris: Galerie Maeght, 1960. Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, no. 75, illustrated.