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Georges Braque (1892-1963), Lithograph, ‘Theogonie III’, 1954

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,000.00 EUR Estimated At:1,600.00 - 2,000.00 EUR
Georges Braque (1892-1963), Lithograph, ‘Theogonie III’, 1954
Lithograph in colors on Auvergne a la Main laid paper (watermark)
France, 1954
Georges Braque (1882-1963) – French painter and graphic artist
Signed lower right in pencil ‘G Braque’
Numbered lower left in pencil ‘67/75’
Published by Édition Maeght, Paris
Printed at Mourlot, Paris
Catalog raisonné: Vallier 90
Image dimensions: 44.2 x 29.1 cm
Good condition
In the 1960s, Braque worked intensively with Ovid's Metamorphoses; Lithographs in colors fetch up to 50.000 euro on international auctions

In this lithograph in colors of gold, beige and white from 1954 is a rejected design, that Braque created for the envelope to the portfolio ‘Théogonie’. It was published in 1955 and illustrated with 20 etchings Hesiod's text. In the present graphic the title is given in Greek. It also exists a variant in French.

The lithograph in colors is signed lower right in pencil ‘G Braque’ and numbered lower left in pencil ‘67/75’. The sheet is reversibly mounted on a backboard at the reverse upper edge. The mounts show through on recto. The sheet is in good condition. The frame shows slight signs of wear. The image measures 44.2 x 29.1 cm, the sheet 78 x 59.7 cm. The framed dimensions are 62 x 61.2 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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