Houses at l'Estaque
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Artist | Georges Braque |
Year | 1908 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 40.5 cm × 32.5 cm (15.9 in × 12.7 in) |
Location | Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art[1], Lille |
Houses at l'Estaque (French: Maisons à l'Estaque, or Maisons et arbre) is an oil-on-canvas painting by Georges Braque executed in 1908. It is considered either an important Proto-Cubist landscape[2] or the first Cubist landscape.[3] The painting prompted art critic Louis Vauxcelles to mock it as being composed of cubes which led to the name of the movement.[4]
It is a response to works by Paul Cézanne who also lived in L'Estaque at times.[5]
History
This painting by Braque was refused at the Salon d'Automne in 1908. Louis Vauxcelles recounted how Henri Matisse told him at the time, "Braque has just sent in [to the 1908 Salon d'Automne] a painting made of little cubes".[6] The critic Charles Morice relayed Matisse's words and spoke of Braque's little cubes. The motif of the viaduct at l'Estaque had inspired Braque to produce three paintings marked by the simplification of form and deconstruction of perspective.[7] Six landscapes painted at L'Estaque signed Georges Braque were presented to the Jury of the Salon d'Automne: Guérin, Marquet, Rouault and Matisse rejected Braque's entire submission. Guérin and Marquet elected to keep two in play. Braque withdrew the two in protest, placing the blame on Matisse.[6]
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See also
- The Viaduct at L'Estaque (Le Viaduc à L'Estaque) 1908
References
- ^ Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art
- ^ Ganteführer-Trier, Anne; Grosenick, Uta (2004). Cubism Taschen 9783822829585
- ISBN 9781615300631
- ISBN 9780199239658
- ISBN 9780300099089
- ^ a b c Alex Danchev, Georges Braques: A Life, Arcade Publishing, 15 nov. 2005
- ^ Futurism in Paris - The Avant-garde Explosion, Pompidou Center, Paris 2008