Georges Braque

One of Braque's best and most stunning prints, Deux Oiesaux (Richesse de la France) is remarkable for its monumental size and rich coloration. Brilliant lapis lazuli blues highlight the black and white silhouettes of Braque's graceful birds as they flit across a night sky, relaying an impression of peace and calm.

Conveying his ability to work in a variety of artistic mediums, Braque creates an exquisite tapestry featuring the delicate silhouette of Hécate, the Greek goddess of fertility. This tapestry is remarkable for the sense of texture and luminescence that Braque achieves; the gold thread shimmers in the light and stands out against the periwinkle blue center and black background.

In this quintessential example of Braque's Cubist style, he pays tribute to famed composer J.S. Bach. This piece is remarkable for Braque's ability to depict a visual representation of music; we glimpse segments of musical instruments effortlessly and harmoniously arranged within a geometric order.

One of only three ceramic editions created by Braque, Valse evokes Braque's fond relationship with music and his passion for thematic still life works. This piece is noteworthy for Braque's representation of two seemingly opposite musical worlds: the accessible world of the mandolin and the bourgeois waltz of the upper class.

Varying from his Cubist style, Braque conveys a delightful still life, remarkable for its painterly quality. Utilizing thick strokes and a soft blending of earthy hues, Braque depicts a vibrant bouquet of yellow flowers that would make an excellent addition to any space.

Notable for its organic quality and beautifully balanced composition, this is one of Braque's best still life prints. A rotund teapot and voluptuous fruit contrast starkly with the geometric frames above the table, and the piece overall evokes a sense of class and elegance, as if we have just entered an upscale tea party.

Inviting us to observe the often unnoticed beauty of everyday objects, Braque dedicates this still life work to the depiction of two objects: a teapot and a bunch of grapes. Braque does not included distracting details but rather strips the background of unnecessary detractions, depicting his subjects with rich, painterly strokes.

Evoking a sense of peace and calm through his color palette of soft periwinkle blues and purple-greys, Braque creates an exquisite work. His technical mastery of the medium as well as his innate artistic talent shines through, as he achieves a remarkable sense of texture and a wonderful balance apparent in the 90 degree angles of the birds' necks that elegantly mimic one another.

Balancing this lovely still life with two groups of three pieces of fruit, Braque achieves a wonderful, soft sensibility that evokes a sense of quiet contemplation. He offers us a slightly raised vantage point, as we witness the lovely spread laid out before us. His attention to subtle details is also noteworthy, as he includes delicate polka dots on the tablecloth that add a sense of overall charm.

Offering a strong example of Braque's connection to the sea, this stunning work, with its two grounded boats, relays an impression of abandonment and longing. We can just glimpse the sea in the background, yet it seems distant and unobtainable as we are confronted with the reality of the shore in the foreground.

Varying from his other renditions of boats and the seashore, Braque here utilizes a brighter, lighter color palette that brings to mind the clarity and calm that follows a storm. Unlike Braque's earlier hyper-cubist pieces, this work illustrates the mature development of his style that resulted in a combination of realistic and linear representation. This is exemplified through his reduction of images to simple shapes and structures that work together to create a cohesive whole.

Emanating with warmth, this floral piece evokes a sense of comfort and security best felt at home. In contrast to his Cubist works, this lovely piece, depicted through earthy hues and soft strokes, forms an organic composition, allowing us to glimpse a different aspect of Braque's artistic oeuvre.

This stunning, windswept scene figures in a series of lithographs published by Maeght éditeur, Paris which were inspired by Georges Braque's watercolors, gouaches, and paintings. With bold , swirling strokes and an earthy color palette, Braque transports us into nature whilst relaying a sense of animation and motion.

Offering the viewer an energetic representation of a vase and flowers, Braque provides a sanctuary in the depths of a sky-blue background. The end result is a powerful and pleasing work that expertly navigates between the audacious and the inhibited. This work is a wild captivating expression of Braque's artistic polemic that he ceaselessly strived to portray.

This magnificent still life evokes light and shadow to relay a sense of depth and perspective, exemplifying Braque's artistic mastery of this medium. Published by Guy Spitzer, this marvelous piece with hints of bright yellow appears as if illuminated with light. We can imagine that we are standing right in front of this appealing spread, preparing to help ourselves to a refreshing glass of lemonade.

This extraordinary lithograph captures both the textural and coloristic qualities that were characteristic of Braque's later career and reveals his proclivity towards the depiction of maritime landscapes, which may have been inspired by his retreats to the Normandy Coast where he owned a home after 1930.

This curious image combines two of Braque's favorite subjects (birds and geometric imagery) in an unusual way, as we witness white square "birds" flitting across a blue sky. Aptly entitled Le tir a l'arc (the Archery), we feel placed in the role of the archer, pinpointing these abstract forms as our targets.

Exemplifying a softer side of Braque, this exquisite image of the forest relays an impression of peace and calm. Through his earthy color palette and effortless strokes, Braque relays the impression that we have entered a mysterious forest, surrounded by green foliage.

Addressing an often lesser acknowledged subject, Braque gives life to the fish that we buy at the store and put on our plates. Using bold lines and strong tonal contrasts, Braque offers us a platter of fish for visual consumption.

Noteworthy for its rich sense of color and texture, this is one of Braque's boldest still life works. We feel as though we are gazing in on an array of personal belongings as we witness a pipe, a cup, and scattered papers upon a dotted tablecloth. With a few items Braque hints at the type of person that these objects may belong to, providing an indirect narrative to this stunning still life.

Expressing the talent and skill of Braque's graphic works, this piece illustrates the artist's remarkable ability to create imaginative abstract still lives. In this sense, Braque has taken familiar objects and modified them to emphasize their symbolic value, encouraging us to use our imaginations to find meaning within this seemingly straightforward artistic genre.

Depicting one of Braque's favorite subjects, a bird, this beautiful piece is noteworthy for its delicate decorative touches and rich sense of texture and color. A white bird accented with an intricate, ornate design flies through a night sky, dotted with stars. A halo of indigo blue envelopes it, providing a contrast between the thin, detailed lines at the center and the painterly quality of the surrounding indigo and beige hues.

Mysterious and alluring in both content and execution, this extraordinary lithograph captures the refined and personal style of Braque's later and more intriguing works. Braque displays the beauty in everyday objects, such as this trio of apples that, depicted through Braque's soft strokes and earthy hues, appear to glow with liveliness and vitality.

Verre et journal, a handsome still life of a glass and newspaper, derives from the revolutionary cubist period of Braque's career. Displaying the somber tones of the style that he championed with Picasso, this lithograph plays with concepts of collage and trompe l'oeil.

Tapping into the symbolism and history that accompanies the subject of a chariot, this piece revives the excitement felt when witnessing an ancient chariot race. Noteworthy for its strong color contrasts and somewhat eerie, skeletal horse and rider, Braque creates an image filled with a sense of animation and liveliness that instantly captures our eye.

Displaying a sensitive use of color and texture, this image represents the evolution of the still life within Braque's career. With this image, the artist replaces the cubist formality of his early compositions with a fluid organic quality which would come to characterize the artist's later works.

Intimate in size, this blue lithograph draws the viewer in close in order to best appreciate its subtle variations in tone and finesse of line. The artist returns to the motif of the flying bird, an image also found in his ceiling installation at the Louvre in Paris.

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 silhouettes and finesse of line.

Utilizing a striking sense of texture and nearly monochromatic coloration, Braque creates an exquisite still life. Braque uses a predominantly black and white palette except for sparks of color to highlight the lemons and apples, utilizing strong color contrasts to highlight his subjects. The large scale of this work helps to place us in the environment from which this still life was captured, relaying a sense of peace and calm.

Instilled with a strong sense of contrast, this piece is remarkable for its seamless combination of the organic with the technical. Braque depicts a plough against a background of graphing squares. Experimenting with his artistic style, Braque conveys the plough in his trademark manner of soft, graceful strokes, yet places his subject against a grid of squares, contrasting the symmetrical and defined squares with the loosely undefined form of the plough.