Pal (Bouteille de Bass et verre sur une table)
Georges Braque
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
Georges Visat print, 1950; Maeght éditeur, Paris
Catalog raisonné : Vallier 7
©Succession Picasso 2024
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.