Salon d'Automne developments and innovations of 20th-century painting and sculpture. Fourteen years after the rejection of Georges Braque's "L'Estaque" paintings by the jury of the Salon d'Automne of 1908; Matisse, Rouault, Marquet, and Charles-François-Prosper Guérin, Braque was given the accolade of the "Salle d'Honneur" in 1922, without incident. In a dramatic case of "situational irony", a room at the Salon d'Automne was dedicated to Picasso in 1944. During the crucial years of Cubism, between 1909 and 1914, the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler forbade Braque and Picasso from exhibiting at both the Salon d'Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. He thought the salons were
Braque Triptych Braque Triptych The Braque Triptych (or the Braque Family Triptych) is a c. 1452 oil-on-oak altarpiece by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden. When open, its three half-length panels reveal, from left to right, John the Baptist, The Virgin Mary with Jesus and Saint John the Evangelist, and on the right, Mary Magdalene. When the wings are closed, the work shows a vanitas motif of a skull and cross. "The Braque Triptych" is the only surviving devotional work by van der Weyden known to be painted for private rather than public display. The altarpiece was probably commissioned by