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"Coup de coeur" by Georges Braque
Equinoxe de Georges Braque - Mai 2018
Lithographie originale, signée par l'artiste, 1962.
Après l'effroi de la Première guerre mondiale, Georges Braque tourne la page du cubisme. Dans le repli de son atelier, son œuvre se fera singulière, hors des mouvements artistiques.
Dès 1929, l'oiseau apparaît dans ses oeuvres, thème qu'il creusera, surtout après la seconde guerre mondiale, jusqu'à sa mort en 1963, et ce tant dans son oeuvre peint que dans ses estampes.
Oiseau traversant un nuage, Vol de nuit, L'oiseau de feu, Dans le ciel, Au couchant, Oiseau des forêts, Astre et oiseau, Résurrection de l'oiseau, Thalassa, L'oiseau et son ombre, L'envol, L'oiseau dans le feuillage, Oiseau en vol, Equinoxe, L'ordre des oiseaux, L'oiseau des sables, sont quelques-uns des titres des nombreuses lithographies ou eaux-fortes au motif d'oiseaux.
« J'ai vu passer de grands oiseaux. De cette vision, j'ai tiré des formes aériennes. Les oiseaux m'ont inspiré. Le concept même, après le choc de l'inspiration, les a fait se lever dans mon esprit, ce concept doit s'effacer pour me rapprocher de ce qui me préoccupe : la construction du fait pictural. »
Nés de son imagination, ces oiseaux sont à contre courant de notre époque qui encense la nouveauté tapageuse, les excès fiévreux, les nerfs à vif. Véritables poèmes picturaux, ils invitent au silence, à la contemplation. « Qu'est-ce que j'entends par « poésie » ? C'est pour un tableau ce qu'est la vie pour un homme. Mais ne me demandez pas de la définir ; c'est ce pour quoi tout artiste doit se battre et il doit le découvrir pour lui-même à travers son intuition. Pour moi, c'est une question d'harmonie, de rapports, de rythme et - ce qui est le plus important pour mon œuvre - de métamorphose ».
« Oublions les choses, ne voyons plus que les rapports » dit-il encore. Pour « Equinoxe », sur la page blanche, d'amples aplats de couleurs vives répondent aux formes simples et arrondies. Pour suggérer l'écho de l'envol, l'intensité de l'élan vital, il y convoque l'air, le vent, les nuages, la lune et le soleil et enfin l'oiseau tendu vers un espace illimité.
Paul Eluard, Jacques Prévert, Francis Ponge, René Char, Pierre Reverdy, ils ont été nombreux à offrir leurs textes et poèmes à l'inspiration de Georges Braque, et bien sûr Saint-John Perse pour le magistral livre illustré « L'Ordre des Oiseaux ».
Stamp by Georges Braque
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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A tribute to Georges Braque
Georges Braque est mort à Paris en septembre 1963. André Malraux prononcera son oraison funèbre dans la cour du Louvre. Georges Braque repose dans le cimetière marin de Varengeville-sur-mer (Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France), village caché dans le bocage où, en 1956, il avait crée cinq vitraux pour la petite chapelle et possédait une maison. Nous avons choisi un lys blanc, pour la pureté et pour le panache que le vieil homme portait avec tant de distinction.
"Monsieur Braque méprise la forme, réduit tout, sites et figures et maisons, à des schémas géométriques, à des cubes." - Louis Vauxcelles (Critique d’art)
"J'accepte pour Braque et Picasso, mes amis, l'épithète cubiste qu'on leur a donnée par dérision." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"On s'est dit avec Picasso pendant ces années là des choses que personne ne dira plus, des choses que personne ne saurait plus se dire, que personne ne pourrait plus comprendre." - Georges Braque
"Braque est la référence pour juger de la valeur des tableaux modernes, il est le véritable patron de l’art moderne." - Jean Paulhan
"Toute ma vie, ma grande préoccupation a été de peindre l'espace." - Georges Braque
"Il y a une part de l'honneur de la France qui s'appelle Braque - parce que l'honneur d'un pays est fait aussi de ce qu'il donne au monde." - André Malraux
Notes of biography
George Braque was born in Argenteuil in 1882. At the age of eight his family moved to Le Havre where he continued studying and took evening classes at the town’s art school.
At 18 he went to Paris where one of his father’s friends employed him as an apprentice painter-decorator. He found lodging in Montmartre and took drawing lessons with the local county council. After accomplishing his military service in le Havre he settled down permanently in Paris and enrolled in an art course at the Humbert Adcademy where he met Francis Picabia and Marie Laurencin.
In 1904 he found himself a studio. His friendship with Othon Friesz, who, like himself came from Le Havre, attracted him to the Fauvist movement. In 1906 Braque moved to a region in Marseille called l’Estaque where he decisively joined the Fauvist movement. He exhibited a number of his works which were sold at the “Independents Show”. Encouraged by his recent successes Braque returned to le Midi and in October 1907 he signed a contract in Paris with an art dealer Kahnweiler. The latter introduced him to Apollinaire who turn introduced him to Picasso who, at that time was working in his studio at Bateau-Lavoir . “The Young Ladies of Avignon” was a revelation to Braque.
His graphic work started in 1907-1908 with Cubist etchings. (Published by Maeght). Back once again in le Midi Braque’s style developed. He decomposed space into geometric compact masses using a palette of dark colours. The works that he had intended to exhibit at the autumn show were refused! He exhibited them at his own exhibition at the Kahnweiler Gallery at the end of 1908. It was on this occasion that the word “Cube” was first used (by the critic Louis Vauxcelles). A strong friendship between Braque and Picasso led to a close collaboration (1909-1912). The two men researched and influenced each other mutually. Braque started studying still-life, which, from then onwards became an important element in his works. It was an era of Analytical Cubism, a period when Braque started to use figures. For the fist time the artist introduced letters and numbers, painted with stencils into his works. He incorporated natural elements (sand, sawdust, iron filings) and produced his first collages. Cubism entered into its synthetic period.
Braque is called up to fight in the First World War. He was badly wounded and underwent a trepanation He recovered slowly and took up his painting again in 1917.
He was disconcerted by the development of his friend Picasso’s work and their collaboration came to an end. George Braque advanced towards a less aggressive Cubism, more colourful moving more towards the respect of the object it represented. He produced in series: Canephors, chimneys (1922-1927), swimmers, beaches, cliffs (1930), he also illustrated books commissioned by Vollard. Illustrating became an important aspect of the artist’s work, throughout his life he illustrated texts from Apollinaire, Artaud, Eluard, Hésiode, Illiazd, Jouhandeau, Paulhan, Ponge, Reverdy, Saint-John Perse (“L’ordre des Oiseaux”), Au Vent d'Arles, 1962 (read the extract of the editor’s interview in French language) and many other writers, intellectuals or poets. The years that followed were particularly prolific and Braque’s evolution was marked out by a succession of decorative still-lives. At the end of the Second World War a serious illness forced him to stop working for a while. In 1949 Braque completed the first paintings in the “serie de Ateliers” and worked on theatre scenery. 1n 1948 he and other artists (Léger, Lipchitz, Chagall, Richier, Rouault, Bazaine, Matisse, Bonnard etc.) sculpted the door of the tabernacle of the Church of Assay (Haute-Savoie), which represented the Eucharistic symbol, the fish, and produced small sketches for the four tapestries to be the subject of the pedestal table . In 1952 he was commissioned to paint the ceiling of the Henry II gallery at the Louvre (black birds, outlined in white on a blue background). In 1956 he created the stain-glass windows for a chapel at Varengeville/Mer (Normandy) where he owned a house. In 1958 he finished the “Serie des Ateliers” begun in the post war period.
Georges Braque died in Paris in 1963. He is buried in the marine cemetery at Varengeville/Mer, a small village hidden in a copse.
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To read about the artist :
- « Le monologue du peintre », G. Charbonnier, Julliard, 1959
- « Braque, la peinture et nous », Dora Vallier, Seuil, 1982
- « Georges Braque, vie et œuvre », B. Zurcher, Nathan, 1988
- « Braque », Nadine Pouillon et autres, ed. Centre Georges Pompidou, 1992
- « Braque ou la peinture sacrée », Jean Paulhan, Ed. de L'échoppe, Paris, 1993
- « Georges Braque, rétrospective », J.-L. Prat & autres, Fondation Maeght, 1994
- « Georges Braque », J.-L. Prat, cat. Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 1997
- « Georges Braque et le paysage », cat. d'expo., Ed. Hazan, Paris, 2006
- « Braque - L'espace réinventé », collectif, Ed. Prisma, Paris, 2013
- « Georges Braque », collectif, cat. d'expo., Grand Palais, Ed. RMN, Paris, 2013
To read from the artist :
- « Entretiens, notes et écrits sur la peinture », André Verdet, Galilée, 1978
- « Le jour et la nuit : Cahiers de G. B., 1917-1952 », Ed. Gallimard, réed.1988
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Stamp by Georges Braque
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*).
It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stampsOriginal photography and dedication
Private collection / These documents are not for sale.
Watch
A tribute to Georges Braque
Georges Braque est mort à Paris en septembre 1963. André Malraux prononcera son oraison funèbre dans la cour du Louvre. Georges Braque repose dans le cimetière marin de Varengeville-sur-mer (Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France), village caché dans le bocage où, en 1956, il avait crée cinq vitraux pour la petite chapelle et possédait une maison. Nous avons choisi un lys blanc, pour la pureté et pour le panache que le vieil homme portait avec tant de distinction.
"Monsieur Braque méprise la forme, réduit tout, sites et figures et maisons, à des schémas géométriques, à des cubes." - Louis Vauxcelles (Critique d’art)
"J'accepte pour Braque et Picasso, mes amis, l'épithète cubiste qu'on leur a donnée par dérision." - Guillaume Apollinaire
"On s'est dit avec Picasso pendant ces années là des choses que personne ne dira plus, des choses que personne ne saurait plus se dire, que personne ne pourrait plus comprendre." - Georges Braque
"Braque est la référence pour juger de la valeur des tableaux modernes, il est le véritable patron de l’art moderne." - Jean Paulhan
"Toute ma vie, ma grande préoccupation a été de peindre l'espace." - Georges Braque
"Il y a une part de l'honneur de la France qui s'appelle Braque - parce que l'honneur d'un pays est fait aussi de ce qu'il donne au monde." - André Malraux
Art movements
+ CUBISM / 1907-1925 / Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Charles Dufresne, Jacques Lipchitz, Jean Metzinger, etc.
+ ARMORY SHOW / 1913 / Constantin Brancusi, Charles Camoin, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Hopper, Joseph Stella, etc.
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