Braque, Georges, Original Color Lithograph Signed, 1956 Start Price USD 6,000.00 Current Price USD 6,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 28, 2008 End Time Wednesday, October 08, 2008 Location Masterworks Fine Art, Oakland Hills, CA See more about 'Braque, Georges, Original Color Lithograph Signed, 1956' Description --> home current inventory search art knowledge art commentary buy art about us contact us Title: L'oiseau et son nid (The Bird and Its Nest) Artist: Braque, Georges Medium: Color Lithograph Image Size: 13 in x 20 in (34 x 51 cm) Sheet Size: 22 in x 15.75 in (55.88 x 40 cm) Framed Size: 38 in x 33 in (96.52 x 83.82 cm) Signature: This work contains a guaranteed authentic signature by Braque, 'G. Braque,' in pencil in the lower right Edition: Numbered in pencil, 22/300 in the lower left corner Condition: This work is great condition!     Description: DESCRIPTION:Reflecting Braque's mature aesthetic style, this piece is a beautiful exploration into Audubon iconography, as Braque uses subtle color variations to depict bird flight and habitat. Characterized by highly varied tonal values and imaginative reductions of form, this is a gentle image of a bird returning to her full nest. Published by Maeght, circa 1956, this work is part of a series of lithographs and etchings that were based upon Braque's original watercolors, gouaches and paintings. Braque was very involved in the printing process, overseeing the lithographer and correcting the proofs when necessary. The work is numbered 22/300 in pencil. This work contains a guaranteed authentic signature by Braque, 'G. Braque,' in pencil in the lower right. The piece also contains the publisher's blindstamp, 'Maeght Editeur' in the lower left. Of Braque's later bird series, Braque scholar Edwin Mullins states, "In the simplest possible manner the metaphysical and the physical merge in these last paintings of birds and sky. Horizon, sky, cosmic space even, are now tactile as formerly Braque had made a jug or a lemon tactile; yet the bird that wings across these clotted skies remains an unreal and insubstantial thing, an image from a dream…In Bird Returning to its Nest [the work from which Bird and Its Nest was inspired], which Braque chose to represent him at the World Fair of 1958, the light and dark areas are reversed, the sky now being a deep brown impasto which even more strongly emphasizes its material nature, while the bird gliding across it is pale buff" (Mullins, 199-200) . Catalogue Raisonné & COA:It is fully documented and referenced in (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that I will accompany the final sale of the work) : 1) Vallier, Dora; Braque: The Complete Graphics Catalogue Raisonné, 1982, listed as Maeght, no. 1024 on page 294. 2) Documented in the Maeght gallery archives as Maeght 1024. 3) The original painting, Bird Returning to its Nest, which inspired this work is documented in Edwin Mullins', The Art of Georges Braque, on page 201. About the Framing:This work is framed in a brilliant Spanish style frame. The modeled gold tone coupled with the rich black portions of the frame compliment the gentle hues within the work. The framing is completed with cream linen wrapped mattes, a delicately sculpted inner fillet, and Plexiglas cover. All materials are archival and museum quality. Who is Masterworks Fine Art? 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