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click here!  Mark Harden's Artchive Braque, Georges Le Portugais
(The Emigrant) Ceret [and Paris], autumn 1911-early 1912 Oil on
canvas 46 x 32 in. (117 x 81 cm.) Kunstmuseum Basel Romilly 80
"[I]n the spring of 1911 Braque introduced a new element into
one of his paintings which was of vital significance. Across a
painting entitled 'Le Portugais' Braque stencilled the letters
BAL, and under them numerals. Braque had first introduced
letters into a still life, probably of early 1910, but they are
blended into the composition and have no function other than
that of identifying as a newpaper the object over which they are
painted...  "The stencilled letters and numebrs are assertions
of [the realistic intentions of Cubism] - 'as part of a desire
to come as close as possible to a certain kind of reality, in
1911 I introduced letters into my paintings', Braque has said -
but the implications are wider. In 'Le Portugais' they fulfill
several obv