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Braque | Picasso
Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to announce Braque I Picasso, an intimate exhibition on view Nov. 5, 2021, through Jan. 15, 2022, honoring the two greatest collaborators of 20th-century art. Featuring two masterworks by Georges Braque (1882-1963) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), each created at the height of their careers in the 1930s, the presentation illuminates the endurance of their artistic symbiosis even after their iconic friendship and collaboration dissolved.
Cubism’s revolutionary invention is attributed to Braque and Picasso’s legendary working partnership between 1907 and 1914. To describe their interconnectedness, Braque once said, “We were like climbing partners roped together,” and Picasso likewise declared, “Almost every evening, either I went to Braque’s studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day.” Indeed, as they challenged and motivated one another, their prolific output of early Cubist works evolved into such a similar aesthetic that Picasso purportedly once mistook a work by Braque for his own. Their fruitful alliance continued until Braque enlisted in the French Army just before World War I, after which they separated ways and developed more creative autonomy. Their artistic synergy, however, may have never truly ceased, as evidenced in this exhibition juxtaposing Picasso’s Pichet et Coupe de Fruits (1931) and Braque’s Nu Couché (1935). These two works, created more than 15 years after their pivotal collaborative period, profoundly reveal a continued affinity in their mid-career work. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, an original documentary film will also be on view presenting archival footage of the artists, their legendary 20th-century art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and French poet and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau, as well as scholarship from leading academics, such as William Rubin and John Richardson.
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Nahmad Contemporary is pleased to announce Braque I Picasso, an intimate exhibition on view Nov. 5, 2021, through Jan. 15, 2022, honoring the two greatest collaborators of 20th-century art. Featuring two masterworks by Georges Braque (1882-1963) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), each created at the height of their careers in the 1930s, the presentation illuminates the endurance of their artistic symbiosis even after their iconic friendship and collaboration dissolved.
Cubism’s revolutionary invention is attributed to Braque and Picasso’s legendary working partnership between 1907 and 1914. To describe their interconnectedness, Braque once said, “We were like climbing partners roped together,” and Picasso likewise declared, “Almost every evening, either I went to Braque’s studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day.” Indeed, as they challenged and motivated one another, their prolific output of early Cubist works evolved into such a similar aesthetic that Picasso purportedly once mistook a work by Braque for his own. Their fruitful alliance continued until Braque enlisted in the French Army just before World War I, after which they separated ways and developed more creative autonomy. Their artistic synergy, however, may have never truly ceased, as evidenced in this exhibition juxtaposing Picasso’s Pichet et Coupe de Fruits (1931) and Braque’s Nu Couché (1935). These two works, created more than 15 years after their pivotal collaborative period, profoundly reveal a continued affinity in their mid-career work. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition, an original documentary film will also be on view presenting archival footage of the artists, their legendary 20th-century art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, and French poet and filmmaker, Jean Cocteau, as well as scholarship from leading academics, such as William Rubin and John Richardson.
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