Braque

• “Braque is my favorite 20th century still life artist, and kinda goes both with and in opposition to Odilon Redons flowers.”

  Giorgio Morandi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

• “Braque is not an artist about whom I knew a lot before today (not that I know a lot now, but I have more familiarity than I did).”

  Happy birthday to me!

• “In 1945 Jean Paulhan, editor of the Nouvelle Revue Française and a minor collector, published an important book entitled Braque le Patron in which he stated, 'Braque is the artist, without hesitation, whom I take as a Master.”

  In Braque's Studio

• “In the exchanging of ideas so intimately as has happened splendidly between Picasso and Braque, which is in the nature of professional dignity among artists, there is bound to be more or less confusion even to the highly perceptive artist and this must therefore confuse the casual observer and layman.”

  Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets

• “Picasso saw things a bit differently, referring to Braque as "ma femme," or "my wife.”

  NYT > Home Page

• “Artists such as Braque and Picasso no longer bothered to sign their works, they knew they did not matter any more than anyone else, we were all built of the same stuff, trees, animals, rock, air.”

  July 2008

• “Of particular note are the paintings by members of the School of Paris, such as Braque, Picasso, and Modigliani; paintings and drawings by the circle of early American modernists around Alfred Stieglitz; over ninety works by Paul Klee; large-scale paintings by the postwar Abstract Expressionists; bronzes by Elie Nadelman and Gaston Lachaise; as well as paintings, drawings, and prints by the contemporary German artist Anselm Kiefer.”

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• “A fortnight ago, however, I wandered alone through the Giacomettis while my husband had a gallery to himself to contemplate one of Braque's Atelier series.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pruning the Cost of Luxury on the Riviera

• “With works by Bonnard, Braque, Calder, Chagall and Miró housed in a stunning building perched on a fir-clad Provençal mountainside, visitors number more than 200,000 a year.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Pruning the Cost of Luxury on the Riviera

• “When Peggy Guggenheim established her gatekeeping Art of This Century gallery in New York, in 1942, she installed in three of its four rooms a private collection, gathered in Europe over the preceding decades, that could stand in for the entire patrimony of continental modernism — Kandinsky and Cocteau, Picasso, Ernst, and Braque.”

  Newsweek: Splatter-Day Saints

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