A century ago, L’Estaque was a modest Mediterranean port to the northwest of the industrial city Marseille. Of the many artists who spent time painting its scenic vistas, none was better known than Paul Cézanne (1839–1906). It was partly in homage to this revered and recently deceased artist that Braque traveled to L’Estaque in the summer of 1907. The influence of Cézanne’s art can be seen here in Braque’s palette and use of geometric forms to render the terraced park adjacent to a seaside hotel.
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Inscription: Signed and dated (verso, vertically, left, in black paint): G. Braque 07
[Galerie Kahnweiler, Paris, probably before November 1908–14; inv. no. 95, photo no. 1032; sequestered Kahnweiler stock, December 12, 1914–21; Hotel Drouot, Paris, first Galerie Kahnweiler sequestration sale, June 13, 1921, lot 21 (purchased for Fr 260 by the Kahnweiler syndicate, under the pseudonym “Grassat,” for Galerie Simon, one of the seven shareholders composing “Grassat”)]; [Galerie Simon (Daniel Henry Kahnweiler), Paris, from June 1921; inv. no. 6647; probably sold by the gallery through Galerie Alfred Flechtheim GmbH, Düsseldorf and Berlin (no. “4968 [?] 4”), also one of the seven shareholders composing “Grassat,” in the early 1920s to Gröppel]; Irene and Karl Gröppel, Bochum and Gollenshausen, Germany (early 1920s–July 1953); [probably acquired from Gröppel by, or on consignment with, [Adolf?] Wüster, Munich, in July 1953; sold in July 1953 to Fine Arts Associates]; [Fine Arts Associates (Otto M. Gerson), New York, 1953–54; sold in January 1954, through their daughter Eileen Josten, to Margaret and Werner E. Josten]; Margaret and Werner E. Josten, New York (1954–her d. 1976); their son, Peter W. Josten, New York and Griggstown, New Jersey (1976–94; sold in November 1994 through Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York to Lauder); Leonard A. Lauder, New York (from 1994–2013; transferred on April 8, 2013 to the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust); The Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Trust, New York (2013)
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Kunsthaus Zürich. "Georges Braque: Juni bis Juli 1953. Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Werke mit 24 Tafeln," June 7–July 19, 1953, no. 13 (as "Vue de l’Hôtel Mistral," lent by a private collection, Bochum).
New York. Fine Arts Associates. "French Art Around 1900, from Van Gogh to Matisse," October 26–November 21, 1953, no. 4 (as "View from the Hotel Mistral").
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Hilton Kramer. "Modern Art at the Turn of the Century." The Turn of the Century. New York, 1957, ill. p. 48, as "View from the Hotel Mistral, L’Estaque".
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Francis Ponge, Pierre Descargues, and André Malraux. G. Braque. New York, 1971, p. 91, ill. p. 90, as "View from the Hotel Mistral, L’Estaque".
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Nicole Worms de Romilly and Jean Laude. [Catalogue de l'œuvre de Georges Braque]. Vol. [1], Le Cubisme, fin 1907–1914. [Paris], 1982, p. 29, ill. p. 28.
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Serge Fauchereau. Braque. New York, 1987, pp. 9-10, 12, 126, no. 9, ill., as "View of L'Estraque from the Hotel Mistral".
Monika Flacke-Knoch and Stephan von Wiese inAlfred Flechtheim, Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. 1937. Europa vor dem 2.Weltkrieg. Ed. Stephan von Wiese and Monika Flacke-Knoch. Exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. Dusseldorf, 1987, p. 167.
Sigrun Loos. "Das Feuer der Begeisterung genügt mir." Georges Braque, Das Druckgraphische Werk. Ed. Otto Breicha et al. Graz, 1987, p. 13, as "Terrasse in L'Estaque, vom Hotel Mistral aus".
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John Golding. Cubism: A History and an Analysis 1907–1914. 3rd rev. ed. (1st ed., 1959; 2nd ed. 1968). Cambridge, Mass., 1988, pp. 58, 61, 221, pl. 36A, as "View from the Hotel Mistral".
William Rubin, ed. Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1989, ill. p. 78 (German ed., 1990, fig. 7; French ed., 1990, and Spanish ed., 1991, ill. p. 72).
Judith Cousins inPicasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism. Ed. William Rubin. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1989, pp. 347–48 (German ed., 1990, p. 340; French ed., 1990, and Spanish ed., 1991, p. 339).
Alvin Martin and Judi Freeman in Judi Freeman. The Fauve Landscape. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. New York, 1990, p. 235, pl. 253.
Pepe Karmel. "Appendix 2: Notes on the Dating of Works." Picasso and Braque: A Symposium. Ed. Lynn Zelevansky. New York, 1992, p. 323.
Russell T. Clement. Georges Braque: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn., 1994, pp. 69–70.
Jean-Paul Monery inL'Estaque: Naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910. Exh. cat., Musée Cantini. Marseille and Paris, 1994, pp. 106–7, 110.
Xavier Prati inL'Estaque: Naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910. Exh. cat., Musée Cantini. Marseille and Paris, 1994, p. 148, ill. no. 139.
William Rubin inL'Estaque: Naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910. Exh. cat., Musée Cantini. Marseille and Paris, 1994, pp. 41, 44–45, 47, 51, 53, ill. no. 25.
Véronique Serrano inL'Estaque: Naissance du paysage moderne, 1870–1910. Exh. cat., Musée Cantini. Marseille and Paris, 1994, p. 233.
Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten. Cubism and Culture. New York, 2001, p. 56, fig. 46.
Véronique Serrano inGeorges Braque et le paysage: De l'Estaque à Varengeville, 1906–1963. Exh. cat., Musée Cantini, Marseille. Paris, 2006, p. 32, figs. 15, 154.
Ottfried Dascher. "Es ist was Wahnsinniges mit der Kunst." Alfred Flechtheim Sammler, Kunsthändler, Verleger. Wädenswil, 2011, p. 155 n. 63, as "La Terrasse (Estaque)".
Claudine Grammont inGeorges Braque, 1882–1963. Ed. Brigitte Leal, Gary Tinterow, and Alison de Lima Greene. Exh. cat., Grand Palais, Galeries nationales. Paris, 2013, p. 23, fig. 3.
Carol Vogel. "Billion-Dollar Cubist Gift to the Met." International Herald Tribune (April 11, 2013), p. 12.
Carol Vogel. "$1 Billion Gift Gives Met a New Perspective (Cubist)." New York Times (April 10, 2013), p. A18.
Armand Israël. Georges Braque: Père du Cubisme, initiateur de l'art contemporain. Paris, 2013, pp. 69–70, ill.
"Objects Promised to the Museum during the Year 2012–2013." The Metropolitan Museum of Art, One Hundred Forty-third Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2013 (2013), p. 45, as "Terrace at the Hotel Mistral, l’Estaque (Terrasse de l’Hotel Mistral, l’Estaque)".
Jack Flam inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, pp. 22, 25, 302(1)n.6, no. 1, ill. p. 23 (color).
Anna Jozefacka and Luise Mahler inCubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection. Ed. Emily Braun and Rebecca Rabinow. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2014, pp. 242–43, fig. 1 (installation photo, Exh. New York 1989–90).
Claudine Grammont inGeorges Braque: 1882-1963. Exh. cat., Museo Guggenheim Bilboa. Madrid, 2014, pp. 20, 23, fig. 3 (color).
Clemens Kreuzer. "Expressionismus in Bochum - eine Vision und ein Eklat: Die Geschichte der Gröppel-Sammlung." Bochumer Zeitpunkte: Beiträge zur Stadtgeschichte, Heimatkunde und Denkmalpflege no. 32 (July 2014), p. 25 n. 77.
Robert A. Davidson. The Hotel: Occupied Space. Toronto, 2018, pp. ix, 14, 16, 168, fig. 1.2 (color).
Pierre Wat inGeorges Braque: Tanz der Formen. Ed. Brigitte Léal and Kathrin Baumstark. Exh. cat., Bucerius Kunst Forum. Hamburg, 2020, p. 57, lists it erroneously in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Susanne Meyer-Büser inBraque, 1906–1914: Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism. Ed. Susanne Gaensheimer and Susanne Meyer-Büser. Exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Düsseldorf, 2021, p. 22, as "La Terrasse de l'hôtel Mistral".
Véronique Serrano inBraque, 1906–1914: Erfinder des Kubismus/Inventor of Cubism. Ed. Susanne Gaensheimer and Susanne Meyer-Büser. Exh. cat., Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. Düsseldorf, 2021, pp. 73–74, 79 n. 41, fig. 6 (color), as "La Terrasse de l’hôtel de la Falaise".
Written on the verso (center of upper stretcher bar, in black crayon): J 4968[1?]4 (Galerie Alfred Flechtheim no.); (inverted at left corner of lower stretcher bar, in white chalk): 6704 [strikethrough]
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