Georges Braque
French painter, collagist and sculptor Georges Braque is, along with Pablo Picasso, renowned as the co-founder of Cubism, which revolutionized 20th-century painting. In his work, objects are fragmented and reconstructed into geometric forms, fracturing the picture plane in order to explore a variety of viewpoints. “The hard-and-fast rules of perspective … were a ghastly mistake which…has taken four centuries to redress,” he said in 1957. Merging aspects of the sculptural with the pictorial, Braque was also an innovator in the use of collage, inventing a technique known as papier collé, which he first explored in one early work Fruit Dish and Glass (1912) by attaching pieces of wallpaper to a charcoal drawing. This approach deeply influenced not only his contemporaries but generations of artists from Modernism to the present.
Oiseau I
1950
Etching on Chiffon d’Auvergne paper
8 x 10.5 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght, Paris
Printer, Signovert, Paris
Catalogue raisonné, Vallier 51
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD
Le Jockey
1954
Color etching and aquatint
12.75 x 19.75 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Maeght, Paris
Printer, Visat, Paris
Catalogue raisonné Vallier 94
Edition of 75
Signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD
Profil, Tir a l'Arc
1960
Lithograph on Chine Colle
8 x 5.75 inches (image)
Printer, Desjobert, Paris
Catalogue raisonné Vallier 153
Edition of 10
Signed and numbered in pencil
SOLD