GEORGES BRAQUE OLD FRENCH ANTIQUE MID CENTURY MODERN ABSTACT CUBISM LITHOGRAPH

Description: FANTASTIC ANTIQUE MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT LITHOGRAPH BY LEGENDARY FRENCH PAINTER GEORGES BRAQUE. (French 1882-1963). THIS WORK DEPICTS A FABULOUS CUBIST STILL-LIFE SCENE BEAUTIFULLY RENDERED IN THE MODERNIST CUBISM STYLE. THIS IS ONE OF BRAQUES EARLY LITHOGRAPHS DATING AROUND THE 1950s OR EARLIER. SIGNED IN THE PLATE. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS: Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) was active/lived in France. Georges Braque is known for Cubist interior and still-life painting, collage, lithography. Born: 1882 - Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France Died: 1963 - Paris, France Georges Braque was born on May 13, 1882 in Argenteuil, France, where his parents ran a paint shop. He was brought up in Le Havre. His father was a house painter at that time, and he encouraged the boy's attempts to draw. Georges also took music lessons from Raoul Dufy's flutist brother, Pierre, which resulted in Braque's continuous love of music; he played several instruments. A slow deliberate student, Braque accomplished nothing much until he became, at age twenty, the youngest member of the group known as the Fauves and first came into prominence in 1906 as a Fauve painter. However he was unhappy with his first canvases in the new style and subsequently destroyed them because they were too realistic for him. With Orthon Friesz, an old friend from Le Havre, Braque went to Antwerp where he began to lighten his palette. In 1908, Braque produced his first Cubist canvases to which the lessons of Fauvism contributed. Braque with Picasso was one of the founders of Cubism- that style of painting which became the dominant style for the first half of the 20th century. The twenty-five year old Braque visited the twenty-six year old Picasso in his studio in November 1907. There he saw the huge and shocking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Braque's responded: "It is as if someone had drunk kerosene to spit fire." Braque was called the moon to Picasso's sun in their partnership. Picasso had a healthy head start but after setting up in L'Estaque in the south of France during the summer of 1908, Braque took the lead. He solidified and refined cubism's multiple viewpoints and spacial ambiguity. The collaboration then began in earnest. In appearance, Braque differed from Picasso. Braque was a tall stocky fellow; Picasso was short, but solid. Unlike Picasso's revolving-door sex life, in 1912, Braque found one wife, Marcelle Lapre, decided he liked her and stayed with her for more than fifty years. Like his paintings, Braque was a man of many facets. He was an avid swimmer, a boxer and a wrestler. He played the accordion; he drove speedy sports cars until age finally slowed him down; and he was known as a good dancer. In 1914, Braque was drafted into the French Army. He was hit in the head on May 11, 1915 and was left for dead on the battlefield of Neuville-Saint-Vaast. After being picked up the next day by stretcher-bearers, Braque evidently underwent cranial drilling. Having spent two days in a coma, he recovered consciousness on May 13, his birthday. He had a long convalescence, mainly in Paris and Sorgues and did not work again until 1917. His wounds would affect him the rest of his life, apparent to visitors through a certain stiffness and slowness of movement. More than Picasso, Braque remained faithful to Cubism throughout his long life, finding in its discipline and subtle color harmonies ample means to express what he saw and thought and felt. As a young man Braque had been an apprentice in the family house-painting business and had learned the craft of simulating in paint the grain of wood or marble. It is amazing how much Braque could achieve with a deliberately limited palette. He also had a remarkable gift for light and was a born colorist, painting with sweet and intimate poetry. He was the purest painter of his time; never mechanized like Picasso, Gris and Leger. His still life occupy an honored place in the history of this genre in which homage is paid to assembled objects of everyday life. Braque developed a mastery of textured surfaces, together with carefully calibrated tones and patterns; he emphasized shapes by forcefully bordering them. In 1912 Braque invented the paper collage, in which scraps of newsprint and ticket stubs were glued onto the canvas. During World War II, Braque remained in Paris. His paintings at that time, primarily still lifes and interiors, became more somber. From the late 1940s Braque also created lithographs, engravings, and sculpture where he utilized his recurring themes of birds, ateliers, landscapes, and seascapes. His international fame continued to grow, when in 1948 he was awarded the main prize for painting at the Venice Biennale, and in 1951, was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour. A few years later, Braques' skill as a craftsman came into play when he designed stained-glass windows for the church of Varengeville and painted the ceiling for the Etruscan Gallery at The Louvre. Georges Braque had the distinction of being the first living artist to have his artworks exhibited at The Louvre in 1961. 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, create lithographs, and design jewelry. He died on August 31, 1963, in Paris with his wife, Marcelle, at his side. Quote: "Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny." Selected Museum Collections: Boca Raton Museum of Art (Boca Raton, FL) Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY (Flushing, NY) J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Institute (Los Angeles, CA) Kresge Art Museum (East Lansing, MI) Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Musee D'Orsay (Paris, France) Musée du Louvre (Paris, France) Musee National d'Art Moderne Pompidou (Paris, France) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA) Museum of Modern Art, New York (New York City, NY) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Washington, DC) National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Ontario, ON) Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase, NY) Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice, Italy) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives (Philadelphia, PA) Portland Art Museum, Oregon (Portland, OR) Print Club of Albany (Schenectady, NY) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MOMA) (San Francisco, CA) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York City, NY) Tate Modern/Tate Gallery, London (London, United Kingdom) The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art (Norman, OK) Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Hagerstown, MD) Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Louvre Museum, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Musee d'Orsay, Paris Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Tate Gallery, London A fun-loving circle of friends and followers formed around Braque and Picasso. They went to circuses, listened to Chinese music, and played instruments.

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