- Artist
- Georges Braque 1882–1963
- Original title
- Baigneuse
- Medium
- Oil paint on board
- Dimensions
- Support: 670 × 543 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
- Reference
- N04722
Catalogue entry
Georges Braque 1882-1963
N04722 Baigneuse
(Bather) 1925
Inscribed 'G Braque | 25' b.l.
Oil on laminated board, 26 3/8 x 21 3/8 (67 x 54.5)
Bequeathed by C. Frank Stoop 1933
Prov:
With Paul Rosenberg, Paris (purchased from the artist); C. Frank Stoop, London
Exh:
Oeuvres de Braque, Paul Rosenberg, Paris, March 1926 (21) as 'Baigneuse' 1925; Braque and Rouault, Tate Gallery, April-May 1946 (65); Georges Braque, Kunsthalle, Basle, April-May 1960 (57)
Lit:
George Isarlov, 'Georges Braque' in Orbes, No.3, Spring 1932, p.91, No.376 as 'Baigneuse'; Nicole S. Mangin, Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Georges Braque: Peintures 1924-1927 (Paris 1968), p.43, repr. as 'Baigneuse'; Marco Valsecchi and Massimo Carrà, L'Opera Completa di Braque 1908-1929 (Milan 1971), No.289, p.99, repr. p.99 and pl.IL in colour
Repr:
Cahiers d'Art, 1927, p.7
Between 1922 and 1926, Braque executed a series of oil paintings and large drawings of nudes of a semi-classical character. This picture, in which the figure is partly wrapped in a towel, has been known in recent years as 'Nude', but was originally exhibited as 'Bather'. It was probably painted later than [N04166], as it had the Paul Rosenberg photo number 1232 as against 1177.
Published in:
Ronald Alley, Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.79, reproduced p.79
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