3859 - Georges Braque, in *Derrière le Miroir*

Georges Braque, in *Derrière le Miroir* Issue 115, with numerous colour lithographs, some full-page, and text; published in 1959; slight signs of age; sheet dimensions (open) 38 x 56 cm. Artist information: French painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and sculptor (1882, Argenteuil - 1963, Paris), regarded, together with Pablo Picasso, as the founder of Cubism, In 1890 he moved to Le Havre, where, from 1899, he trained as a decorative painter whilst also attending evening classes at the École des Beaux-Arts; from 1902 to 1904 he studied at the Académie Humbert in Paris, where he met Francis Picabia and Marie Laurencin, he produced Impressionist works; in 1906, he took part in the 22nd Salon des Indépendants, where he met Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet and André Derain, and turned towards Fauvism; in Le Havre, he collaborated with Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy; from 1906, he was artistically influenced by Paul Cézanne; from 1907, he was in Paris, where he met Picasso and turned towards Cubism; 1914: called up for military service; 1915: suffered a serious head injury, followed by a prolonged convalescence in Sorgues, 1917: Returned to Paris; from 1930: country house in the seaside resort of Varengeville-sur-Mer; from 1947: collaboration with the lithographer Fernand Mourlot in Paris; exhibited at several ‘documenten’ exhibitions in Kassel; Source: Vollmer, Bénézit and Wikipedia.