GEORGES BRAQUE Hand Signed 1956 Original Color Etching

Description: GEORGES BRAQUE Hand Signed 1956 Original Color Etching - "La Nappe Jaune" This is a superb original signed and numbered limited edition color etching by internationally acclaimed artist GEORGES BRAQUE (French, 1882-1963), circa 1956. This rare original color etching is entitled "La Nappe Jaune" (The Yellow Tablecloth) (M. 1038), and is hand signed in pencil by the artist on the front lower right, "G. Braque". It is also numbered in pencil on the lower left "179/300", from the total limited edition of only 300 numbered impressions printed on Rives BFK paper. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris. It measures 19 ¾ x 25 ¾ (sheet), 10" x 17" (image) and is matted and framed in its original custom made linen mat and gold leafed wood frame for a total size of 22" x 27 ½" (there is wear and chipping to the original frame). It is in excellent condition, the colors are bright and fresh. CATALOGUE REFERENCE: Vallier, Dora; Braque: The Complete Graphics Catalogue Raisonné, 1982, listed as Maeght no. 1038, on page 295. Authenticity is GUARANTEED. Current gallery retail: $14,000. Packing, shipping and insurance is $95.00 within the US only. Please view my eBay store for additional museum quality fine art and collectibles. Georges Braque, with Pablo Picasso, was the co-founder of Cubism in 1907-8. Braque was the most consistent of the original Cubist painters and was one of the greatest painters of the century. Braque was born in Argenteuil, near Paris and brought up in Le Havre, where he was apprenticed to his father's painting trade house and studied at the local Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1900 he went to Paris where he befriended Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz, also from Le Havre and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts under Bonnat before going to the Académie Humbert between 1902 and 1904. A year later, Friesz who had adhered to the Fauvist movement notably formed by Vlaminck, Derain and Matisse invited him to adopt his style. His graphic work was connected primarily with an interest in Greek themes, which began in the 1930's and includes 16 etchings for an edition by Vollard of the Theogony of Hesiod. From 1950 to 1958 he did a series of Birds in which decorative quality is combined with extreme simplification. He began by continuing the decorative patterning and flattened planes of Synthetic Cubism but through the 1920's progressed to greater freedom and by the beginning of the 1930's was internationally hailed as a world master of still lifes of the calibre of Chardin. In 1948 Braque was awarded the Venice Biennale Grand Prix for painting. In 1951 he was made Commander of the Legion d'honneur.

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Location: Los Angeles, California

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