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| Artista: | Braque, Georges (1882 - 1963) |
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| Título: | Louvre I, c. 1955 |
| Medio: | Litografía |
| Dimensiones del Ilustración: | 13 in x 7 3/4 in (33 cm x 19.7 cm) |
| Dimensiones del Papel: | 13 in x 7 3/4 in (33 cm x 19.7 cm) |
| Dimensiones del Marco: | 19 in x 13 1/2 in (48.3 cm x 34.3 cm) |
| Firmado: | Created after an image for his ceiling installation at the Louvre, Paris, Braque depicts one of his favorite motifs: the flying bird. Intimate in size, this blue lithograph draws the viewer in close in order to best appreciate its graceful silhouette |
| Edición: | Numbered 36/75 in pencil at lower left. |
| Condición: | This work is in excellent condition. |
| Precio: Artículo# 3598 | Vendido. Please visit the rest of our Braque fine art collection |
| Descripción Histórica: | |
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Three star-shaped white birds soar through a brilliant midnight blue sky in this magnificent work. Braque created this lovely print after an image for his ceiling installation in the Etruscan room of the Louvre, Paris - the only such commission that he ever accepted. After being wounded in World War I, Braque became greatly fascinated with birds, common symbols of freedom and independence. However, Braque denied a clear symbolic definition regarding his flying birds, increasing the element of flux and mystery as this image persisted in the artist's oeuvre. The flying bird appears repeatedly in Braque's career, and one could say that the freedom it connotes resonates with his work, which denies any fixed label. The poet Francis Ponge, known himself for his prose poetry, writes of the artist's greatness: "In him, no affected greatness, no paraded greatness […] A greatness of fact, irremediable, irrepressible, directly generated by the least of his drawings (Abrams, 43). So even the small-format works contain something undeniably Braque. Created in c. 1955, this original color lithograph is numbered 36/75 in pencil at the lower left and signed in pencil by Georges Braque (Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, 1882 - Paris, 1963) at the lower right. DOCUMENTED AND ILLUSTRATED IN: ABOUT THE FRAMING: | |
| Estilo: | Picasso Cubism, Cubist 20th Century French Modern Master |
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Georges Braque biografía
Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)
Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882, in Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France. He grew up in Le Havre and studied evenings at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts there from about 1897 to 1899. He left for Paris to study under a master decorator to receive his craftsman certificate in 1901. From 1902 to 1904, he painted at the Académie Humbert in Paris, where he met Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia. By 1906, Braque's work was no longer Impressionist but Fauve in style; after spending that summer in Antwerp with Othon Friesz, he showed his Fauve work the following year in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. His first solo show was at Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler's gallery in 1908. From 1909, Pablo Picasso and Braque worked together in developing Cubism; by 1911, their styles were extremely similar. In 1912, they started to incorporate collage elements into their paintings and to experiment with the papier collé (pasted paper) technique. Their artistic collaboration lasted until 1914. Braque served in the French army during World War I and was wounded; upon his recovery in 1917, he began a close friendship with Juan Gris.
After World War I, Braque's work became freer and less schematic. His fame grew in 1922 as a result of an exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in Paris. In the mid-1920s, Braque designed the decor for two Sergei Diaghilev ballets. By the end of the decade, he had returned to a more realistic interpretation of nature, although certain aspects of Braque's Cubism always remained present in his work. In 1931, Braque made his first engraved plasters and began to portray mythological subjects. His first important retrospective took place in 1933 at the Kunsthalle Basel. He won First Prize at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, in 1937.
During World War II, Braque remained in Paris. His paintings at that time, primarily still lifes and interiors, became more somber. In addition to paintings, he also made Braque etchings, lithographs, engravings, prints and sculpture. From the late 1940s, he treated various recurring themes, such as birds, ateliers, landscapes, and seascapes. In 1954, he designed stained-glass windows for the church of Varengeville. During the last few years of his life, Braque's ill health prevented him from undertaking further large-scale commissions, but he continued to paint, make lithographs, and design jewelry. He died on August 31, 1963, in Paris.
