Violin and Pipe

Georges Braque French

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This belongs to a series of papiers collés in which Braque foregrounded the dual-directional reading of table and tableau (picture) by drawing the outline of his tabletops inside the picture with soft charcoal lines. The violin inscribed on faux bois wallpaper could be lying on the table or hanging on the wall, given that its tuning keys double as nails. The masthead “LE QUO[TIDIEN] DU M[IDI],” from a daily published in the South of France, may surreptitiously refer to the quotidian (everyday) subjects of still lifes; it also brings to mind “le quodlibet,” a term used to describe pictures of assorted objects and ephemera.

Violin and Pipe, Georges Braque (French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris), Cut-and-pasted newspaper and printed wallpapers, charcoal, graphite, and crayon on paper mounted on cardboard

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