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Description: Georges Braque 1882-1963 LA CALANQUE DE FIGUEROLLES, LA CIOTAT Signed and dated 07 Oil on canvas 233/4 by 28 5/8 in. 60.3 by 72.7cm. Provenance Galerie Paul Guillaume, Paris Kunstsalon Hermann Abels, Cologne Drs. Fritz and Peter Nathan, Zurich Curt Valentin, New York Perls Galleries, New York Peter and Elizabeth Rubel, New York (by 1956) Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe Juviler, New York (sold: Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 25, 1961, no. 25) Marlborough Fine Art Ltd., London and New York (acquired at the above sale) Sale: Christie's, New York, November 14, 1989, lot 58 Private Collection, Tokyo Exhibited (possibly) Paris, Serres du Cours, Artistes Independants, 24e Exposition, 1908, no. 917 (titled Calanque) New York, Perls Galleries, Modern French Paintings, 1956, no. 22 New York, Perls Galleries, Maitres de la premiere generation du vingtieme siecle: A group of paintings in the collection of Peter and Elizabeth Rubel, New York, organized by the Swiss Institute for Art Research, 1957, no. 37 New York, Marlborough Gallery, Modern French Paintings, 1962 New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Georges Braque, 1999, no. 1 Literature John Richardson, G. Braque, Milan, 1961, illustrated pl. 3 Stanislas Fumet, Georges Braque, Paris, 1965, illustrated p. 18 Marco Valsecchi and Massimo Carra, L'opera completa di Braque 1908-1929, Milan, 1971, no. 16, illustrated p. 86 Raymond Cogniat, Braque, Paris, 1977, illustrated p. 11 During the late spring of 1907, Braque travelled south from Le Havre to the hamlet of La Ciotat, situated close to Marseilles in Provence. During his first visit to this seaside town, Braque painted fifteen landscapes which bore a striking similarity in palette and composition to those he did in L'Estaque the previous year. These landscapes were exhibited in the summer of 1907 at the Salon des Independants in Paris to great acclaim. Braque was so encouraged by the success of the 1907 exhibition that he returned to La Ciotat to continue painting. The present w

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Dimensions: 233/4 by 28 5/8 in.