Volume 44, Number 5 · March 27, 1997
The Great Forgotten Modernist
By John Richardson
Braque: The Late Works 6, 1997, and the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, April 25-August 31, 1997
An exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April
Braque: The Late Works
by John Golding, by Sophie Bowness, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine
Royal Academy of Arts/Yale University Press, 141 pp., $40.00
Once the epitome of the British establishment, the Royal Academy dumbfounded the old guard some years ago by pioneering the rehabilitation of late Picasso. The Royal Academy is now courageously doing the same for late Braque, in a superb display of several dozen of his pictures of the 1940s and 1950s. And about time too. When I first published an article on Braque's eight Ateliers[1] in The Burlington Magazine some forty years ago, I assumed that they would take their place as the culminating achievements of Braque's career: more explorative in their handling of space and more profound in their metaphysical concerns than all except his finest Cubist work.
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