1939, Georges Braque, Artist and Model -- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
From the museum label: In the late 1930s, Braque's focus turned from still lifes to interior scenes, culminating in a series of ambitious compositions representing artists at work in their studios. Here a nude model, her body sliced in two by shadow, poses for a painter silhouetted against the curtain. He smokes a cigarette and examines his handiwork—a picture within the picture. Unlike his contemporaries Picasso and Matisse, Braque abandoned study after the live model early in his career. This studio tableau is, therefore, an imaginary scene unrelated to its author's contemporary practice. The goateed painter depicted bears no physical resemblance to Braque.
1939, Georges Braque, Artist and Model -- Norton Simon Museum (Pasadena)
From the museum label: In the late 1930s, Braque's focus turned from still lifes to interior scenes, culminating in a series of ambitious compositions representing artists at work in their studios. Here a nude model, her body sliced in two by shadow, poses for a painter silhouetted against the curtain. He smokes a cigarette and examines his handiwork—a picture within the picture. Unlike his contemporaries Picasso and Matisse, Braque abandoned study after the live model early in his career. This studio tableau is, therefore, an imaginary scene unrelated to its author's contemporary practice. The goateed painter depicted bears no physical resemblance to Braque.