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Georges Braque (1892-1963), Lithograph, ‘Couple d’Oiseau’, 1963

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,500.00 EUR Estimated At:2,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR
Georges Braque (1892-1963), Lithograph, ‘Couple d’Oiseau’, 1963
Lithograph in colors on Arches wove paper (watermark)
France, 1963
Georges Braque (1882-1963) – French painter and graphic artist
Signed lower right in pencil ‘G Braque’
Inscribed and numbered lower left in pencil ‘H.C. 4/6’
Published by Edwin Engelbert, Geneva
Printed at Mourlot, Paris
Catalog raisonné: Vallier 187
Image dimensions: 17.2 x 19.6 cm
Very good condition
Provenance: Private collection Denmark
The motif of the bird is typical of works by Georges Braque and very much sought-after; Lithographs in colors fetch up to 50.000 euro on international auctions

This color lithograph in two shades of blue and black shows a pair of birds in simplified form typical of George Braque and a popular motif of the artist. The lithograph was made for the series for René Char’s ‘Lettera amorosa’ which was published in 1963 by Edwin Engelberts in Geneva. In addition to the edition of 200 copies, of which the 29 lithographs were partly printed with texts, several copies before the letters were also printed. The present lithograph is one of these copies.

The lithograph in colors is signed lower right in pencil ‘G Braque’ and inscribed and numbered lower left in pencil ‘H.C. 4/6’ (differing from the catalog raisonné, there 10 copies are specified). The sheet is reversibly mounted on a backboard at the reverse upper edge and in very good condition. The frame shows slight signs of wear. The image measures 17.2 x 19.6 cm, the sheet 38 x 28.2 cm. The framed dimensions are 43 x 33.2 cm.

Georges Braque (1882-1963)

Georges Braque was born 1882 in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris. He began with his studies as an artist in 1900 in Paris. At the beginning of his career, the artist was very much influenced by the Salon d’Automne, the young French Fauvists. At the same time, Braque studied the much reduced, architectural works of Cezanne. In 1907, Georges Braque met Pablo Picasso. The two artists started to work together very closely. In 1909 an art critic described Braque’s works as “cubistic grotesques” and the term Cubism was born. Two years later, Braque was seriously wounded in the First World War. After the war, he increasingly painted still lifes with a main focus on the effect of colors. Georges Braque died in 1963. (fea)


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