Georges braque

Paris’s Grand Palais stages an exhibit of the French artist’s full and remarkably varied career

GEORGE BRAQUE

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Georges Braque, Padre del cubismo

Georges Braque in front of painting; cubist; portrait; France

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Le Viaduc à L'Estaque, Georges Braque, 1908, Paris

“Glancing at one or two of Braque’s paintings in a casual stroll through a museum cannot compare with experiencing, side by side and chronologically, many of the great paintings that established him as a pioneer of modernism,” explains Michael Findlay, director of Acquavella Galleries and one of the masterminds behind a powerful Georges Braque retrospective opening today at the space, located on New York’s Upper East Side.

Paris’s Grand Palais stages an exhibit of the French artist’s full and remarkably varied career

It is not enough to make people see the object you paint. You must also make them touch it.—Georges Braque (1882–1963) In the early 20th century, when Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso pioneered the new pictorial language of cubism, they profoundly affected the course of modern art. Georges Braque and the Cubist Still Life, 1928–1945 is the first in-depth look at the years leading up to and through World War II, a period in Braque’s career when he used the theme of still life to synthesize…