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"tombstone": "The Crystal Vase, 1929. Georges Braque (French, 1882\u20131963). Oil on canvas; unframed: 41.2 x 120.5 cm (16 1/4 x 47 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Alexandre P. Rosenberg, 1975.82. \u00a9 Artists Right Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris",
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"title": "The Crystal Vase",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1975",
"description": "Year in Review: 1975. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 3-March 7, 1976).",
"opening_date": "1976-02-03T05:00:00"
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"id": 218874,
"title": "Georges Braque",
"description": "Georges Braque. Mus\u00e9e d'art moderne Andr\u00e9 Malraux, 76600 Le Havre, France (organizer) (March 19-June 21, 1999).",
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"title": "Masterworks from The Phillips Collection",
"description": "Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005).",
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"title": "Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945",
"description": "Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928-1945. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (January 25-April 21, 2013); The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (June 8-September 1, 2013).",
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"title": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection",
"description": "Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).",
"opening_date": "2022-09-11T04:00:00"
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"description": "Le Havre, France. Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts Andr\u00e9-Malraux \"Georges Braque\" (3/19 - 6/21/99) repr. p. 64.",
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 20 - May 29, 2005. \"Masterworks from The Phillips Collection\". Not in exh. cat.",
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"description": "Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis (1/25/2013 - 4/21/2013) and The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (6/8/2013 - 9/1/2103): \"Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life,\", p. 123, Plate 5.",
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"description": "Paul Rosenberg [1881-1959], Paris and New York, by descent to his son, Alexandre Rosenberg",
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"In 1928-1929, Braque executed four compositions in preparation for four marble mosaic panels to be installed in the dining room floor of art dealer Paul Rosenberg\u2019s Paris apartment at 21 rue La Bo\u00ebtie. Braque gave the preparatory compositions and the CMA painting to Rosenberg. When Rosenberg sold the apartment in 1949, the marble panels were removed from the floor and made into table tops resting on wrought iron bases, also designed by Braque. The table made after The Crystal Vase was in the Paris collection of Rosenberg\u2019s daughter, Micheline, at the time of Alexandre\u2019s donation of the painting to the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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"date": "1929-probably 1959",
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"date": "Probably 1959-1975",
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"did_you_know": "After meeting in 1907, Braque worked closely with Pablo Picasso to create Cubism, a radically new style concerned with formal abstraction and the reorganization of pictorial space.",
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"description": "This still life is one of four paintings commissioned from Georges Braque by collector Paul Rosenberg for his home at 21 rue de la Boetie in Paris. Each painting hung on a separate wall of the dining room, and mosaics based on the paintings were inlaid in the floor, creating a remarkably harmonious grouping known as the \"Rosenberg Quartet.\" When Rosenberg sold his apartment in 1949, the paintings were dispersed (another work from the series is at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC) and the mosaics were converted to tabletops. Crystal Vase is unique among the group for its color scheme\u2014comprising thin washes of muted beiges, grays, and oranges\u2014and for its elegant placement of objects within the challenging elongated rectangular space. The painting combines Braque\u2019s Cubist style of the 1920s with homages to his French forebears Jean-Baptiste Sim\u00e9on Chardin and Paul C\u00e9zanne.",
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"citation": "Braque, Georges. Georges Braque. Lyon: Fage Editions, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 42-43",
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"citation": "Alexandre Rosenberg, letter to Sherman Lee, Nov. 14, 1975, in CMA curatorial file.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1975.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 2 (February 1976): 31\u201371.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 48; Mentioned: p. 69, no. 131",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152624"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cTwo Major Paintings by Georges Braque.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (April 1977): 137\u2013141.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 137, fig. 2",
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"citation": "Moskowitz, Peta. \u201cThe Crystal Vase.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 64, no. 4 (April 1977): 147\u2013151.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 147-151; Reproduced: p. 147, fig. 1",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 243",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n263"
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"citation": "Henning, Edward B. \u201cTwo New Cubist Paintings by Juan Gris and Pablo Picasso.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 2 (February 1981): 39\u201350.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 40, fig. 6",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159711"
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