Georges Braque (1882 - 1963)

L'essor I

The Flight I
1961
    Coloured lithograph on Arches paper, 31/100
  • Printed and published by Adrien Maeght, Paris, 1961
Image 26 × 34.5 cm
Sheet 48 × 65.5 cm
Signatures and Inscriptions
Signed ΄G. Braque΄ (lower right), numbered ΄31/100΄ (lower left)
Provenance

Private collection

Exhibited

Andros, Museum of Contemporary Art-Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, Glancing at the Century, 28 June – 20 September 1998, pp. 60-61, ill. p. 61

Literature

Werner Hofmann and Gerd Hatje (eds.), L’oeuvre graphique de Georges Braque, Lausanne, La Guilde du Livre, 1961, no. 98 (Le cygne sur fond vert)

Fernand Mourlot and Francis Ponge, Braque Lithographe, Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1963, no. 100

Dora Vallier, Braque, l’oeuvre gravé, Paris, Flammarion, 1982, no. 161 (another impression illustrated)

Miguel Orozco, The Complete Prints of Georges Braque, Catalogue raisonné, academia.edu, 25 September 2018, no. LS488, ill. p. 251 (another impression illustrated)

Current location
Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
Floor -1 (temporary exhibition "Memories Steeped in Dream")
Georges Braque
(1882 - 1963)
Gender
Man
Nationality
French
First Name
Georges
Last Name
Braque
Birth
Argenteuil-sur-Seine, France, 1882
Death
Paris, France, 1963