Description:
Georges BraqueTitled ''Les oiseaux de nuit'
Total Framed Size Approximately: 23" x 20", 4" gold leaf wood molding with a linen matting and wood fillet.
Paper: Authentic Vlin de Arches
Medium: Limited Edition Lithograph
The Condition is Remarkably clean, no tears, no foxing; scarce in this condition.
The Verso of the lithograph is clean.
Printed and Published: Paris. Date: 1964, Edition, First Edition.
Publisher: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution
From Prints from the Mourlot Press Originally sponsored by the French Embassy and circulated by the Traveling Exhibition Service.
Braque, Georges , 1882 1963, French painter. He joined the artists involved in developing fauvism in 1905, and at l'Estaque c. 1909 he was profoundly influenced by Czanne. He met Picasso, and the two simultaneously explored form and structure with results that led to the development of cubism. In works such as the monumental Nude (19078; Cuttoli Coll., Paris) Braque exemplified the analytical phase of the movement with his keen sense of structure and orderly method of decomposing an object. In 1911 he introduced typographical letters into his canvases and soon began working in collage. After World War I, in which he was badly wounded, Braque veered away from the angularity of early cubism and developed a more graceful, curvilinear style, predominantly painting still life. His works showed restraint and subtlety both in design and color (e.g., The Table, Pulitzer Coll., St. Louis). Braque is represented in leading galleries in Europe and the United States. He returned to Paris in 1946. In 1948, he was given a solo show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. The artists friendship with Samuel Beckett began around 1951. In 1955, he was honored with retrospectives at the Arts Council Gallery, London, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He received the Sculpture Prize at the 1961 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1962 Venice Biennale, where he was given his own exhibition area. In 1965, Giacometti exhibitions were organized by the Tate Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. That same year, he was awarded the Grand Prix National des Arts by the French government. Giacometti died January 11, 1966, in Chur.
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