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La Roche-Guyon: le château
La Roche-Guyon: le château
La Roche-Guyon: le château
Photo: Prallan Allsten/Moderna Museet

La Roche-Guyon: le château

Artist (Frankrike, 1882 - 1963)
Alternate Title
  • Slottet i La Roche-Guyon
  • The Castle at Roche-Guyon
Date1909
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått: 80 × 59,5 cm Ram: 95,5 × 74,5 × 6 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineBequest 1966 of Rolf de Maré
Countries
On view
Stockholm
Object NumberNM 5985
About the artworkIn the summer of 1909, Georges Braque made five paintings of the castle in La Roche-Guyon, a small town, a few miles outside Paris. Inspired by Paul Cézanne, who had been widely celebrated with retrospective exhibitions in Paris two years before, Braque composed his images architectonically with geometric, prism-like segments. With a subdued palette, Braque gradually allowed colours and shapes to separate. In the years that followed, Braque continued, in close dialogue with Pablo Picasso, to reduce his colours to nuances of brown, grey and ochre – so as not to be distracted from his focus on form. Here, however, in the painting of the castle in La Roche-Guyon, we see his first steps towards what would later become known as analytical cubism.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Se konserveringens arkiv Selected exhibition history Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Scenbyte: verk ur Moderna Museets Samling av Dardel, Matisse, Abdul-Hadi, Hjertén och Léger m.fl. (den 15 oktober 2011 - den 5 februari 2012) Moderna Museet Malmö Den tidiga modernismen: 1900-1920 ur Moderna Museets samling (den 19 mars 2011 - den 2 oktober 2011) Moderna Museet Malmö Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Waldemarsudde - Moderna klassiker (2002-2003) Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm Mästerverken åter. Verk av spanska konstnärer ur Samling S. runt den återbördade Picassos Källan. (1995) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues The Masterpieces are back! : Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [May 6th - August 27th 1995]Moderna klassiker : Moderna Museet c/o Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde : 28/9 2002 - 16/2 2003Mästerverken åter! Moderna Museet, Spårvagnshallarna : [6 maj - 27 augusti 1995]