Irish Whisky

Maker and role
Artist: Jean-Emile Laboureur, French, 1877-1943
 Year
1916
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Object detail

Media/Materials
Engraving
Measurements
plate, 10 1/2 x 7 1/2in (26.7 x 19.1cm)
Credit line
Gift of C. Thomas Wright
Accession number
2013.113
Object type
Prints
Department
Prints and Drawings
Location
Not on view
Further information
Irish Whisky is one of Laboureur’s masterpiece. Very closely related to Georges Braque's still life compositions like Pale Ale (see 1979.24), this beautifully printed engraving shows an abstracted cafe scene. An Irish whiskey bottle is at the center of the composition, flanked by the masthead of a newspaper, a corkscrew, glasses (see from the top and the side), and a bottle of Bass Pale Ale, identified by a small triangle, one of the world's oldest registered trademarks. A bottle of Bass also figures prominently in Braque's Pale Ale.
Documentation
Catalogue Complet de L'oeuvre de Jean-Emile Laboureur; Sylvain Laboureur; ca. 1989-ca. 1991; 155
Subject period
Cubist
Modernist
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