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Georges Braque, Color Lithograph ‘Soleil et Lune II’, 1959

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:1,500.00 EUR Estimated At:2,400.00 - 3,000.00 EUR
Georges Braque, Color Lithograph ‘Soleil et Lune II’, 1959
Lithograph in colors on BFK Rives wove paper (watermark)
France, Paris, 1959
Georges Braque (1882-1963) – French painter
Signed in pencil lower right ‘Georges Braque’
Inscribed in pencil lower left ‘H.C.’
Print outside the edition of 275
Published by Édition Maeght, Paris
Catalog raisonné: Maeght 1035; Vallier p. 295
Image dimensions: 23.5 x 9 cm
Good condition
Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland
Georges Braque founded together with Picasso the art movement Cubism and is a prolific artist of the classical modernism; the highest hammer price for a lithograph in colors by Braque is set above 30,000 euro

The lithograph in colors ‘Soleil et Lune II’ was created by the French painter Georges Braque (1882-1963) in 1959. ‘Soleil et Lune II’ depicts two doves over a light red and a yellow circle in front of a light blue background. The lithograph was published by Édition Maeght, Paris. Together with Picasso he founded the art movement Cubism.



The present lithograph in colors is signed in pencil lower right ‘Georges Braque’ and inscribed in pencil lower left ‘H.C.’. It is a print outside the edition of 275. The lithograph in colors is besides toned paper in the mat cutout in good condition. The dimensions of the depiction are approximately 23.5 x 9 cm and the sheet is 48.5 x 32.7 cm in size. The total dimensions, including the frame, are 52 x 38.5 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. (tm)
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