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Août (l'oiseau) - SOLD
" Août (L'Oiseau) " is an original etching and aquatint realized by Georges Braque in 1958. The print is hand signed and numbered. This ia an edition of 70 prints.
Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a French Fauve painter who began to rethink his own painting style after admiring Picasso’s Les Demoiselles . Using the painting’s revolutionary elements as a point of departure, together Braque and Picasso invented Cubism around 1908 in the belief the art of painting had to move far beyond the depiction of visual reality.
Artist | Georges Braque |
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Typology | Original Prints |
Technique | Etching |
Editor | Louis Broder, Paris |
Period | 1950s |
Signature | Hand Signed |
Conditions | Good (minor cosmetic wear) |
Dimensions (cm) | 38 x 0.1 x 48 |
" Août (L'Oiseau) " is an original etching and aquatint realized by Georges Braque in 1958. The print is hand signed and numbered. This ia an edition of 70 prints.
Passepartout included. Artwork from the serie of 7 Aquatints printed by Crommelynk & Dutrou , Paris, and published by Louis Broder, Paris , on Japon.
Reference: Dora Vallier n.135, p. 193, published in addition to the 56 page book.
Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a French Fauve painter who began to rethink his own painting style after admiring Picasso’s Les Demoiselles . Using the painting’s revolutionary elements as a point of departure, together Braque and Picasso invented Cubism around 1908 in the belief the art of painting had to move far beyond the depiction of visual reality. Most scholars call the first phase of Cubism, developed cooperatively by Picasso and Braque, Analytic Cubism, because essentially it is a painterly study of the structure of form.
Read more about the artist here .