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Fishing Boats or The Port is a painting by Georges Braque, created in 1909 in Paris. It is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in the John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection.[1] It was purchased at auction in 1968, and donated to the museum in 1974.[2]

This oil on canvas is a cubist landscape representing a port in Normandy, fishing boats in the foreground.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ "John A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection".
  2. ^ Art Prices Current. Wm. Dawson & Sons Limited. 1967.
  3. ^ Town & Country. Hearst Corporation. April 1968.
  4. ^ Nero, Irene (1994). Georges Braque's Barques de Peche: An Important Early Cubist Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.


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