Braque: The Papiers Collés

October 31, 1982 – January 16, 1983
East Building, Ground Floor, Northeast, Pod I (2,000 sq. ft.)

Georges Braque, *Aria de Bach*, 1913, collage (black paper, imitation wood-grain paper) with charcoal and white chalk on white paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, 1982.55.2

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 30 works celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Georges Braque, the originator of modern collage. The exhibition and its catalogue were a joint project of the National Gallery and the Musée national d'art moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, where 27 of the collages had been shown the previous summer.

Organization: Dominique Bozo and Isabelle Monod-Fontaine of the Centre Georges Pompidou organized the exhibition, with E.A. Carmean Jr. at the National Gallery.

Attendance: 90,637

Catalog: Braque: The Papiers Collés, by Isabelle Monod-Fontaine with E.A. Carmean Jr. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982.

Other Venues: Centre Georges Pompidou

Braque, Georges: French, 1882 - 1963