Georges Braque Figurative Prints
French, 1882-1963
Georges Braque was born in Argenteuil, France, in 1882. Braque lived much of his childhood and young adult life in Le Havre. He attended night classes at the art school from 1897–99 and then moved to Paris, where he obtained his license as a master decorator. From 1905–06, after studying at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and having been influenced by the works of Henri Matisse, he began to paint in the way of Fauvism by using bright colors and taking advantage of the freedom of the composition. Paysage à L'Estaque (1906) was one of the prominent works of art made at this time.
The year 1907 was a significant time in Braque's development, wherein he visited the retrospective on Paul Cézanne and he came into contact with Picasso, who was very engrossed in the realization of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon at the time. At this point, Braque began nurturing a considerable interest in primitive art. After the First World War, Braque worked autonomously and developed a more personal style, which was characterized by vivid colors and textured surfaces. Braque painted still life, interior views, and ocean scenes. The Ateliers (1948–55) and Birds (1955–63) series were painted during this period. In 1948, he obtained his first award for painting at the XXIV Biennial in Venice.
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Artist: Georges Braque
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
By Georges Braque
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Georges Braque - Original Lithograph
1963
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
Andre Sauret, Monte Carlo
The father of Cubism
Three Cubist that distinguishes art historian periods were initiated and developed by Georges Braque: The Cubist Cézanne (1907-1909), Executive (1909-1912) and synthetic (1912-1922).
Post-Impressionist and fawn, Braque no longer adheres to the contingency of a decorative way or the other. Cézanne’s paintings exhibited at the Grand Palais during the retrospective of 1907 are a revelation: Cézanne sought and invented a pictorial language. In his footsteps, Braque went to the South with the reasons of the Master. He returned with Estaque landscapes and surprising Ciotat it keeps Cezanne geometric model and retains the “passages” continuity from one surface to another to create the sensation of “turning around” of the object represented. But he wants to go after the consequences of the vision of Cezanne. In his paintings Houses in L’Estaque (1908) it simplifies the volumes of houses, neglects detail by removing doors and windows: the plastic rhythm that builds the table. Large Nude , a masterpiece of the period, can be considered the first work of Cézanne cubism .
Systematizing and deepening Braque discoveries open the door analytical cubism. In 1909, his painting became more cerebral than sensual. The pattern is recreated in the two-dimensionality of the canvas, leaving aside any illusionistic perspective. In Still Life with Violin, objects are analyzed facets according to their characteristic elements, each facet referring to a particular view of the object. There are so many facets of points selected view: Table reflects the knowledge of the object and the ubiquity of the eye. Moreover, Braque is looking for the essence of the objects in the world rather than their contingency, which explains the absence of light source and use of muted colors (gray, ocher), contingent aspects of the object . But formal logic has stepped facets, erased any anecdote to the object and ultimately led to his painting a hermetic more marked on the edge of abstraction (see the series of Castle Roche-Guyon ).
Braque, anxious to keep the concrete and refusing at all costs that the logic of Cubism takes the paintings to abstract, reintroduced signs of reality in his paintings in 1912 marks the beginning of Synthetic Cubism. Historians speak of “signs of real” rather than reality because what interests Braque, this is not to put reality into a table, but to create a painting which, by its language, refers to the real. To do this, he invented two major techniques XX th century inclusions and contributions. The inclusions consist of painting objects that have no real depth, materials (wallpaper in Nature morte aux playing cards faux wood is a pictorial inclusion) or letters (calligraphic inclusion in Portuguese ), made first brush and a few months later stencil. Contributions are defined in contrast with the collage on canvas of foreign materials: glued or sand paper, sawdust, etc.. Regarding the collages, Braque used for the first time in September 1912 a piece of adhesive paper imitating faux wood Compote and Glass , then the packet envelope of tobacco Bock in 1912-1913, or an advertisement in Damier , 1913). Inputs and inclusions refer to an external object in the table, without “emulate” this object. Away from their appearances, objects are represented in closest essence of the objects in the real world sense.
This is also the time of Synthetic Cubism that Braque invented paper sculpture. There are, unfortunately, and no one is living proof of a photograph makes it possible to realize: Paper and paperboard.
Métamorphoses period(1961-1963).
In 1961, Georges Braque worked on a Greek head for the Louvre, which obsesses him, and he wishes to free his mind. He tried several times to bring out the paint and the result was unsatisfactory. He thinks the ultimate metamorphosis its Greek head projected in three dimensions. He calls in his studio of Baron Heger Loewenfeld, master lapidary, and he communicates his enthusiasm during the “fateful encounter.” Nine months later, in honor of the eighty years of Georges Braque, Heger Loewenfeld offers the Master of the ring Circe: the famous Greek head finally exorcised, carved in an onyx. Braque Loewenfeld then asked to identify other issues that haunt him.
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La Charrue (The Plough)
By Georges Braque
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Combining the organic with the technical, Braque (Argenteuil-sur-Seine, 1882- Paris, 1963) depicts a plough against a background of graphing squares. The plough appears as if in wate...
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Théière grise - Post War, Lithograph, Still Life, Tea Pot, Gray
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Théière grise" (Gray Tea Pot) by Georges Braque from 1947.
The total edition comprises approx. 80 copies.
The present copy is signed and numbered below the ima...
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1940s Post-War Georges Braque Figurative Prints
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Char noir (Char V) - Etching, Greek, Mythology, Acient, Horse, Chariot
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Etching and aquatint in colour "Char noir (Char V)" (Black Chariot, Chariot V) by Georges Braque from 1958.
The edition on BFK RIVES comprises approx. 75 copies.
The present copy...
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1950s Modern Georges Braque Figurative Prints
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Etching, Color, Aquatint
Le poète - lithograph, greek, acient, profile, bird, flowers
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Lithograph in colours "Le poète" (The poet) by Georges Braque from 1958 for "Cinq poésies en hommage à Georges Braque" (Five poems in honour of Georges Braque) by René Char.
The boo...
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Feuillage en couleurs - Modern, Aquatint, Embossing, Plant, Leaves, Still Life
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour aquatint with embossing ""Feuillage en couleurs" (Colourful Leaves) by Georges Braque from 1956.
The edition on BFK RIVES cromprises approx. 80 copies.
The present copy is ...
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1950s Modern Georges Braque Figurative Prints
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Profil - Modern, Lithograph, Stars, Deep Blue
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Profil" (profile) by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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Métamorphose - Modern, Lithograph, Abstract, Flower, Plant, Nature, Deep Blue
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Métamorphosis" (metamorphosis) by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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Les volubilis - Modern, Lithograph, Abstract, Flower, Plant, Nature
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Les volubilis" by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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Les deux Iris bleus - Modern, Lithograph, Flower, Plant, Blue
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Les deux Iris bleus" (The two blue irises) by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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Giroflée bleue - Modern, Lithograph, Violet, Flower, Plant, Blue
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Giroflée bleue" (The blue violet) by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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Fleurs de l'air - Modern, Lithograph, Violet, Flower, Plant
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Fleurs de l'air" (Flowers of the air) by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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Deux fleurs violettes - Modern, Lithograph, Violet, Flower, Plant
By Georges Braque
Located in Köln, DE
Colour Lithograph "Deux fleurs violettes" (Two violet flowers) by George Braque from 1963 from “Lettera amorosa”:
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- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Georges Braque is known for being one of the leading artists in both the Fauve and Cubist art movements of the early 20th century. The French artist produced paintings, collages, prints and sculptures. On 1stDibs, find a variety of Georges Braque art.
- Was Georges Braque a Surrealist?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertAugust 29, 2024No, Georges Braque was not a Surrealist. Influenced by Henri Matisse, Braque's early works display the bright colors and emotional symbolism common to Fauvist art. Later in his career, the French artist worked primarily in Cubism alongside his contemporary Pablo Picasso. Shop a selection of Georges Braque art on 1stDibs.