| Title: |
1. Frontispiece - 2. Still Life (Verso) |
| Artist: |
Braque, Georges (Argenteuil, 1881 - Paris, 1964) |
| Date: |
1952 |
| Medium: |
Two Original Lithographs |
| Publisher: |
Verve, Paris |
| Printer: |
Fernand Mourlot, Paris |
| Note: |
"The senses deform, the mind forms. Work to perfect the
mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives." -- Georges Braque *
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Arguably the most important Cubist artist of the twentieth
century, Georges Braque first trained in his father's profession as
a house painter. He began studying art techniques in 1902 and attended
classes at Paris's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Georges Braque's fellow students included
Othon Friesz and Dufy and by 1905 all three artists produced paintings
associated with Fauvism. |
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1907 marks a key year in Georges Braque's art. He was strongly influenced
by a memorial exhibition of Cezanne at the Salon d'Automne and he met
and became friends with Picasso. Together these two great artists introduced
and developed Cubism. In Cubism form is deliberately dislocated and fragmented
and no modern movement in art has had a greater impact. |
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During the First World War (1914-1918), Georges Braque served in
the French army and was seriously wounded twice. After the war the art
of Picasso and Braque began to seriously diverge. Picasso rapidly experimented
with many styles whereas Georges Braque continued to explore Cubist elements
and variations. Also a master of stage design and book illustration, Georges Braque
was made a Commander of the Legion of Honour in 1951. Ten years later
he received the distinction of being the first living artist to have his
work exhibited in the Louvre. |
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Georges Braque's first original prints date from 1911. During
the remainder of his career he was accomplished in the mediums of etching,
drypoint engraving and lithography. Like his paintings, Georges Braque's graphic
art is concerned with form and texture. He often varnished over his etchings
and lithographs and introduced sand and simulated grains. Frontispiece
is typical of Braque's brilliant exploration of these artistic elements. |
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Frontispiece and Still Life were commissioned
by the Paris publication, Verve, and were bound into their 1952 double
number volume. Both sides of the sturdy, wove paper were used for printing
and therefore the black and white lithograph (Still Life) appears on the
verso of the colour lithograph (Frontispiece). The paper has thus been
matted on both sides in order to make the two lithographs accessible.
Both these original lithographs clearly indicate George Braque's place
as a primary twentieth century artist. |
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Verve: From 1937 to 1960 Verve was a leader for promoting
modern movements in art. Printed and published in Paris, this periodical
contained articles on and by leading contemporary artists. More importantly,
each issue contained at least one original print created specifically
for the publication. |
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Some of the most sought after original lithographs of the
twentieth century appeared in 1952 double number (#27 & 28) of Verve.
These included Marc Chagall's complete Visions de Paris set, Henri
Matisse's, The Sadness of the King, Leger's, The Outing,
Andre Masson's, Le Torrent, Miro's, The Dog Barking at the Moon
and original lithographs in both colours and black and white by Georges
Braque, Henri Laurens, Alberto Giacometti, Francisco Bores and Marcel
Gromaire. Original works of art printed by Verve never appeared
in pencil signed and limited editions, but most were published in numbers
of two thousand five hundred or less. |
| Reference: |
* H. J. Wechsler, Great Prints & Printmakers, New
York, Leon Amiel, 1977, p. 226. |
| Source: |
Verve (Moods and Movements in Art) |
| Size: |
14 X 10 3/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
| Condition: |
Printed upon thick, wove paper and with full margins as
published in Paris for Verve in 1952. Signed with the artist's
'G. B.' mongramme within the stone on Still Life. As usual, slight
bleeding from the colours of Frontispiece is evident on Still Life,
else both lithographs are in very good condition throughout. Frontispiece
and Still Life represent striking, original examples of the famous
Cubist art of Georges Braque. |
| Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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