Georges Braque - Evening Editions New York Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore

  • Literature

    Dora Vallier 1

  • Catalogue Essay

    This is Braque's first print and there were only a few impressions printed in 1907-08.

    "I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty, the beauty that appears to me in terms of volume, of line, of mass, of weight, and through that beauty interpret my subjective impression. Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. I want to expose the Absolute, and not merely the factitious woman."

13

Etude de Nu (Nu)

1907-08
Etching with drypoint and plate tone, on Rives paper, with margins,
I. 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 in. (27.3 x 19.1 cm);
S. 20 x 14 7/8 in. (50.8 x 37.8 cm)

signed and numbered 16/30 in pencil (there was also an edition of 25), printed by Georges Visat, published by Maeght, Paris, 1953, minor surface soiling, pale mat staining, a few soft creases in the lower margin, soiling and staining along the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition, framed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $10,000

Evening Editions

26 October 2011
New York