Printer: Mourlot (1 of 1000 editions)

Dimensions: 76.2 x 52.1 cm

Condition: Very good

Frame: Unframed

Description: This is a rare lithographic poster created for the 1961 exhibition Braque’s Studio. At the age of seventy-nine, Braque became the first living artist to be given a solo exhibition at the Musée du Louvre. He had already been commissioned in 1953 to paint a ceiling fresco for the museum, The Birds, which remains in place today.Braque’s interest in birds deepened in the mid-1950s after a visit to the Camargue, and the motif became a recurring presence in his work. Ed. 1000.

Artist: Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) was a French painter from Normandy best known for developing cubism with Pablo Picasso. From school, he followed his family’s trade as a house painter and decorator, taking art classes at night before moving to Paris to study at the Académie Humbert in Montmartre. Inspired by the impressionists, he focused on landscapes with increasing use of bold colour and shapes which resulted in his alliance with fauvism. This artistic movement, steered by Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, André Derain, Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy broke new ground in art as it moved away from representational form. Braque had by then met Picasso and between 1906 and the outbreak of the First World War, they began to further deconstruct artistic norms to develop cubism. Braque sustained a severe head injury during the war and was slow to return to art but it was said his work was bolder, freer, and his style continued to evolve as he embraced collage, sculpting, lithography, jewellery design and stage sets. He died in 1963.