Georges, Braque, Pal (Bass bottle and glass on a table), 1911

1911

Original etching in black on Arches paper

66 x 50.5 cm

Annotated in pencil lower left “H.C 4/6”, signed by the artist in pencil lower right

Tirage Georges Visat, 1950; Maeght éditeur, Paris

Catalogue raisonné: Vallier 7

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Pal (Bass bottle and glass on a table) the title is given by the inscription Pal, which is the truncated name of Pale Ale beer (Dora Vallier – Braque L’oeuvre gravé – catalog raisonné). In an oval composition, Braque places a bottle, discernible by its label, on a table with a glass, an extreme simplification of the object in a geometric form. This is what Georges Braque was looking for in Cubism. This period, from 1907 to 1914, more or less, saw exchanges with artists such as Pablo Picasso.