Georges Braque notecard sleeve of 8 double fold cards with envelopes

Main works

The Estaque (1906), The Large Nude (1908), The Man with the Guitar (1912)

Artistic movements

Fauvism, Cubism, Analytical Cubism

Inspiration, influence

He began with fauvism, and it was Matisse and Derain who influenced him in his research around color and the juxtaposition of colors. But it was the black outline surrounding the reliefs of Paul Cézanne that led him to cubism!

His contemporaries

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Cézanne, André Derain, Paul Gauguin

To keep in mind

Without causing as much controversy as his Spanish accomplice, Pablo Picasso, he managed to impose Cubism through a long process of shaping space and researching materials. His "Great Nude", to be seen alongside the "Demoiselles d'Avignon", which ushered painting into the 20th century of modernity, perfectly illustrates the eternal quest of this discreet man: starting from the evidence of a gaze to reach the strength, the absolute of a vision.

To go further

Through his collages and arrangements of the relationship between shapes and colors, Braque is the thinker of Cubism, more than Picasso the instinctive!
Seriously injured during World War I, Braque returned to a more classical painting style in the 1930s, before moving back towards a simplification of forms, notably with his series on birds in the 1950s.