Houses at L'Estaque is a 1908 landscape Georges Braque painted at the Provencal fishing village of L'Estaque, reducing the hillside houses to blocky, near-monochrome geometric volumes with little regard for conventional perspective. Submitted to the Salon d'Automne jury, which rejected it, the painting was shown instead at a solo exhibition where the critic Louis Vauxcelles described the work dismissively as bizarreries cubiques, bizarre little cubes, the phrase from which Cubism took its name.
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Year Created LocationKunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 1 Medium
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Created By
Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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Source Gardner's Art Through the AgesFred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner)
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1. Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on Cubism, section on Georges Braque
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Houses at L'Estaque is a 1908 landscape Georges Braque painted at the Provencal fishing village of L'Estaque, reducing the hillside houses to blocky, near-monochrome geometric volumes with little regard for conventional perspective.
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